Joel is laying pipe for a sprinkler system before he plants his lawn. the lawn is a rectangle, 15 feet long and 8 feet wide. he needs to lay a piece of pipe that will run along the diagonal of the lawn. it will divide the area of the lawn into two right triangles. what will be the length of the pipe?

a. 120 feet
b. 17 feet
c. 23 feet
d. 289 feet

B is the right answer. Diameter of the given rectangular lawn=17 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: A rectangular lawn 15 feet long and 8 feet wide.

To find the diagonal of lawn such that it will divide the area of the lawn into two right triangles. [i.e. diagonal will be the hypotenuse]

So by Pythagoras theorem of right triangles,

Therefore diameter of the given rectangular lawn=17 feet.

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step-by-step explanation:

the slope of a line is equal to the rise/run. in this case the line rises 2 units for every +3 units it moves