University:
Felician University
Course:
MATH-160 | College Algebra
Academic year:

2022
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152

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3
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StellarStrategist

**What Did Dr. Dripp Say to the Bleeding Kid Who Refused to Get Stitches?** Find the missing side length, if possible (some answers are rounded). Cross out the letter next to the correct answer. When you finish, the answer to the title question will remain. For Exercises 1-8, refer to the diagram at the right. 1. a = 6, b = 8 c = 10 2. a = 10, b = 7 c = √149 ≈ 12.2 3. a = 15, b = 15 c = 15√2 ≈ 21.2 4. a = 10, c = 26 b = 24 5. b = 30, c = 50 a = 40 6. a = 5, c = 12 b = √119 ≈ 10.9 7. b = 13, c = 20 a = 15.2 8. a = 1.5, b = 2 c = √7.25 ≈ 2.7 **Answers 1-8** 10 12.2 2.8 21.2 24 10.9 15.2 2.7 **Answers 9-17** 9. 3.2 m 10. 17.4 cm 11. 16 ft 12. 22.6 ft 13. 9 cm 14. 16 ft 15. 15 in 16. 14.6 in 17. 3.6 m **What Do You Call an Occupied Restroom On an Airplane?** Cross out the letters above each correct answer. (Most answers are rounded.) When you're finished, write the remaining letters in the spaces at the bottom of the page. **Find the missing side length, if possible.** 1. [Image of a right triangle with sides 15 and 24] 25 2. [Image of a right triangle with sides 27 and 30] 18.9 3. [Image of a right triangle with sides 0.8 and 0.6] 1 km 4. [Image of a right triangle with sides 40 and 32] 48 in. **Solve.** 5. Mr. Potato bought a big-screen TV. The screen is 52 in. wide and 29 in. high. Find the length of its diagonal. 59.5 in. 6. A 16-foot ladder is leaned against a wall. If the base of the ladder is 5 ft from the wall, how high up on the wall does the ladder reach? 15.2 ft 7. A 25-foot waterslide extends 15 ft out into the water. How high is the top of the slide? 20 ft 8. Two trains left Frog City at the same time. One traveled north at 70 mph. The other traveled east at 50 mph. About how far apart were the trains at the end of three hours? 290 mi 9. For this equilateral triangle: [Image of an equilateral triangle with side length 20 cm] a. Find the height. 17.3 cm b. Find the area. 173 cm² 10. These triangles are drawn on 1-cm dot paper. Find the perimeter of each. [Image of various triangles drawn on a grid] 11. A park is in the shape of a rectangle 3 km long and 1.6 km wide. You are walking from point A to point B. How much shorter is your walk if you walk diagonally across the park rather than along two sides of it? 1.45 km