Question

Steve is turning have of his backyard grill chicken pen. His backyard is A 24 m x 45 m rectangle. he wants to put a chicken wire Fence that stretches diagonally from one corner to the opposite corner. It’s like the diagonal chicken wire fanta blank meters. Ron said in the nearest 10th and not a

Answer 1

We can use a diagram to show the backyard:

The length of the diagonal can be gotten using the Pythagorean Theorem given to be:

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

where c is the length of the hypotenuse and a and b are the other two sides.

Therefore, we can calculate the length of the hypotenuse to be:

`\begin{gathered} x^2=24^2+45^2 \\ x^2=576+2025 \\ x^2=2601 \\ x=\sqrt[]{2601} \\ x=51 \end{gathered}`

The length of the chicken wire fence will be 51 m.