Question

Jared is using a 100 ft rope to set up a kite-shaped area for food vendors. He has started roping off the area as shown below, and has one more stake to place. How can Jared use all of the rope to complete the kite shape? Explain

Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

A kite is a quadrilateral (has four sides and four angles) with two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.

From the image we can see that one pair of congruent side has be formed with a length of 30 feet. Therefore the amount of rope that has been used is 60 feet and 40 feet (100 - 60) of rope would be remaining to complete the kite. Hence 40 feet of rope would be used to make the other pair of adjacent side.

This means that the remaining pair of adjacent side would be 20 feet each so that all the roe would be used.