(a)
To find: The area of cloth.
(a)
Answer to Problem 24E
Area of unfolded
Explanation of Solution
Given: The design for a winged box kite uses four triangular pieces of cloth. To cut out one of these pieces, you fold a piece of cloth in half and pin a pattern on the cloth as shown below.
You cut along
The dimension of folded triangle,
The cloth cut along
Area of unfolded triangle
(b)
To find:The length of wooden dowels attach to congruent shorter sides of each of the 4 unfolded triangle.
(b)
Answer to Problem 24E
Explanation of Solution
Given: The design for a winged box kite uses four triangular pieces of cloth. To cut out one of these pieces, you fold a piece of cloth in half and pin a pattern on the cloth as shown below.
You cut along
In the given triangle, ABC the shorter side length is
All four triangles are similar.
So, total length of wooden dowels
The length of wooden dowels are 50 inches long.
We need only 29 inches. So, only 1 piece to buy wooden dowels.
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