Math Post 2
November 3, 2014
Mr. DeVries is making a large square animal cookie jar out of clay. Each side is 16ft, long to decorate it he wants to put a ribbon diagonally across the corners. How long should the ribbon be?
a squared + b squared = c squared when making a right triangle, therefor to solve this problem a and b are 16ft and we need to find the value of c. 16 squared is 256. 256 + 256 = 512. 512 = c squared. In order to get c on it’s own you would need to fin the square root of 512, witch is roughly 22.63. With this information we can know that the length of the ribbon should be about 22.63 ft.
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