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Amina runs a small café at the festival and her piece of ground

is 6.0 m x 5.0 m. She wants to put up a tarp roof to shelter
the entire area. The angle at the central top of the roof has to be 90°.
What is the minimum length and width of the tarp in order to
cover the whole roof?

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Answer:

The minimum length and width of the tarp would be the diagonal length of the café's piece of ground. To find this length, you can use the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the longest side) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. In this case, the café's piece of ground forms a right triangle, with one side measuring 6.0 m and the other side measuring 5.0 m. So, to find the length of the hypotenuse, we can use the formula: c = √(a^2 + b^2) where c is the length of the hypotenuse and a and b are the lengths of the other two sides. Plugging in the numbers, we get: c = √(6.0^2 + 5.0^2) = √(36 + 25) = √(61) = 7.81 m

So, the minimum length and width of the tarp would be 7.81 m.

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