Question

POSSIBLE POINTS. 1

Construction workers are building a marble sidewalk around a park that is shaped like a right triangle. Each marble slab adds 2 feet to the length of the
sidewalk. The workers find that exactly 1071 and 1840 slabs are required to make the sidewalks along the short sides of the sidewalk that runs along the
long side of the park?

Answer 1

Explanation:

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

where

a and b are the legs

and

c is the hypotenuse

.

the problem gives the "legs" because the LONGEST leg is always the hypotenuse.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

1071^2 + 1840^2 = c^2

1147041 + 3385600 = c^2

4532641 = c^2