Question

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

Answer 1

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