Mathematics, 30.06.2019 14:30 katherineweightman

Arectangular piece of plywood has a diagonal which measures two feet more than the width. the length of the plywood is twice the width. what is the length of the plywood’s diagonal? round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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Answer from: rattler6125

The length of the plywood's diagonal(to the nearest tenth) is, 3.6 and 1.4

Step-by-step explanation:

let l be the length and w be the width of the rectangle respectively;

Diagonal(D) of a rectangle is given by:

$D = \sqrt{l^2+w^2}$ ......[1]

As per the given statement we have;

Diagonal(D) = width + 2

and

$l = 2 \times w$ = 2w

Now, substitute these in [1] we have;

$\sqrt{(2w)^2+w^2} = w+5$

Squaring both the sides we get;

4w^2+w^2 = (w+2)^2

5w^2 = w^2 + 4 + 4w

5w^2 -w^2 = 4w + 4 or

4w^2= 4w + 4

Simplify:

w^2-w-1 =0 ......[2]

The quadratic equation is in the form of ax^2+bx+c = 0

the solution is given by: $x = \frac{-b \pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$

On comparing with [1] we get

a= 1 , b = -1 and c = -1

Then the solution is:

$w= \frac{-(-1) \pm\sqrt{(-1)^2-4(1)(-1)}}{2(1)}$

$w =\frac{1 \pm\sqrt{1+4}}{2} = \frac{1 \pm\sqrt{5}}{2}$

Simplify:

$w \approx 1.62$ and $w \approx -0.62$

Then, the diagonal D = w+2

For $w \approx 1.62$

$D = 1.62 +2 \approx 3.62$

For $w \approx -0.62$

$D =-0.62 +2 \approx 1.38$

therefore, the length of the plywood's diagonal(to the nearest tenth) is, 3.6 and 1.4

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for the friend request.

when a figure, such as triangle (xyz) is reflected over the line y = x to create x'y'z' the x-coordinates and y-coordinates of the original image (pre-image) will be reversed for the image. (e.g., (x, y) > (y, x)) this means that the pre-image position of the x- and y-coordinates switch places which in turn provides a mirror like image of the original xyz.

i notice that when i draw a line segment from x to x', that the points are parallel from each other -- they are exactly across from each other and do not intersect with any other points.

yes, think i would see the same characteristic if you drew the line segment connecting y with the reflecting line and then y' with the reflecting line because of the essence of reflections. because it is a mirror image, each point was effected the same way which leads me to conclude that they same would apply to y and y'.

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x is the total time in minutes for the free response

you are given number of questions as 15 - m and time per item as 8 minutes

to find x multiply the two givens together:

x = 8 * (15-m) = 8(15-m)

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