you are building a ramp that will be in the same shape of a perfect right angled triangle. the vertical height of the ramp will be 10 feet. the horizontal base of the ramp will be 15 feet. what will be the length of the downward sloping side of the ramp?
A 18feet
B 19feet
C 20feet
D 21 feet
you'd do 15^2 + 10^2
Then take that answer and square root it.
You should also probably round to the neartest whoole number if you get a decimal.
You should do this on a calculator, by the way, because not a lot of people can do square roots in there head. lol
i don't get it
Well do you know the pythagorean theorum?? It say that the base squared + the height squared should equal the slope squared. So your going to do
(15x15)+(10x10)= the slpoe.
Hope that helps.
Answer:the square root of 325.
To find the length of the downward sloping side of the ramp, also known as the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle, we can use the Pythagorean theorem.
The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (c) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides (a and b).
In this case, we have the vertical height of the ramp (a) as 10 feet and the horizontal base (b) as 15 feet.
We can use the formula:
c^2 = a^2 + b^2
Substituting the values, we get:
c^2 = 10^2 + 15^2
c^2 = 100 + 225
c^2 = 325
Now, to find the length of the hypotenuse (c), we need to take the square root of both sides of the equation:
c = sqrt(325)
Using a calculator, we find that the square root of 325 is approximately 18.0277.
Therefore, the length of the downward sloping side of the ramp is approximately 18 feet.
So, the correct answer is option A: 18 feet.