Matt has a rectangular garden that is 10 ft wide and 24 Ft long. He wants to build a fence from one corner to the opposite corner. How many feet of fence does Matt need?

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Kaylah Barajas

Mathematics

11 March, 20:58

Matt has a rectangular garden that is 10 ft wide and 24 Ft long. He wants to build a fence from one corner to the opposite corner. How many feet of fence does Matt need?

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Ernesto Edwards · Answer 1

He needs 26 feet of fence.

The diagonal of the rectangle forms the hypotenuse of a right triangle. The two legs would be the width of the rectangle, 10, and the length, 24:

10²+24² = c²

100+576 = c²

676 = c²

c = √676 = 26