Question

we are working with a flower bed in the corner of a rectangular lot. The flower bed is a right triangle with both legs (along the edges of the lot) 6 ft long. What is the length of the remaining side of the bed

Answer 1

The flower bed is shown below:

To find the remaining lenght of the flower bed (which we named c) we can use the pythagorean theorem:

`c^2=a^2+b^2`

where a and b are the legs of the triangle, in this case both legs are equal to 6, then we have;

`\begin{gathered} c^2=6^2+6^2 \\ c^2=36+36 \\ c^2=72 \\ c=\sqrt[]{72} \\ c=8.5 \end{gathered}`

Therefore the remaining length is 8.5 ft.