A car dealer advertised a big sale by stretching a stringof banners from the top of the building to the edge of driveway. If the building is 27 m high and driveway is 32 m from the buildind, how long is the string of banners?

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Kathryn Dickerson

Mathematics

14 August, 03:16

A car dealer advertised a big sale by stretching a stringof banners from the top of the building to the edge of driveway. If the building is 27 m high and driveway is 32 m from the buildind, how long is the string of banners?

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Quinton Hartman · Answer 1

41.86 meters.

Step-by-step explanation:

By the Pythagorean theorem, we know that the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the lengths of the other two sides of the right-angled triangle.

Now, let's consider 27 meters as the height of a triangle and 32 meters as the base. According to the Pythagorean theorem,

27^2 + 32^2 = (length of the string banners) ^2 = 1753

So, the length of the string banner is 41.86 meters.