What is the value of x, in inches, in the right triangle below?
Question 4
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An overhead view of a revolving door is shown in the accompanying diagram. Each panel is 1.5 meters wide.
What is the approximate width of d, (the opening from B to C)? Round to the hundredths place.
Don placed a ladder against the side of his house as shown in the diagram below. Which equation could be used to find the distance, x, from the foot of the ladder to the base of the house?
The NuFone Communications Company must run a telephone line between two poles at opposite ends of a lake, as shown in the accompanying diagram. The length and width of the lake are 75 feet and 30 feet, respectively.
What is the distance between the two poles, to the nearest foot?