Question

Luther is creating a stained glass windowpane that will be 63 inches by 16 inches. To make the rectangular windowpane, Luther fuses together two triangles of colored glass. What is the perimeter of one triangle?

Answer 1

To make a rectangular windowpane

A

B

C

D

of length

A

B

=

68

c

m

and width

B

C

=

51

c

m

two identical right triangular shaped glass pane of different colored are required as shown in above figure.

So the hypotenuse side of triangular glass pane will be

A

C

=

√

A

B

2

+

B

C

2

=

√

68

2

+

51

2

=

85

c

m

So perimeter of each triangular pane will be

=

A

B

+

B

C

+

C

A

=

68+51+85=204cm#