On a photograph of a triangular piece of land, the lengths of the three sides are 4 cm, 5 cm, and 7 cm, respectively. The shortest side of the actual piece of land is 400 m long. What are the lengths of the other two sides?
1 Answer
May 15, 2018
500m and 700m
Explanation:
On the photograph the measurements are 4cm, 5cm and 7cm.
In real life the shortest side(4cm on photograph) is 400m.
So, 1 cm on the photograph is 100m in real life.
Therefore, 5 cm = 500 m and 7 cm = 700 m.
