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A picture shows a roof of a house. It has a right triangle-shaped with the base of 12 feet as span and height of 4 feet as height of roof. The hypotenuse of the triangle is the slope of the roof.

The pitch of the roof is

User Nisham Mahsin
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Answer:

Explanation:

Pythagorean Theorem:
a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)


12^(2) + 4^(2) = c^(2)

144 + 16 =
c^(2)

160 =
c^(2)

Square root 160

12.6491106 = c

Round to the nearest whole number

13=c

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