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by naaga » Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:13 am
. The outline of a sign for an ice-cream store is made by placing of the circumference of a circle with radius 2 feet on top of an isosceles triangle with height 5 feet, as shown above. What is the perimeter, in feet, of the sign?

(A) 3 pi +3 root 3

(B) 3 pi + 6 root 3

(C) 3 pi + 2 root 33

(D) 4 pi + 3 root 3

(E) 4 pi + 6 root 3

can anyone explain how to complete I struck ed half way
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Re: Geometry

by x2suresh » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:39 am
naaga wrote:. The outline of a sign for an ice-cream store is made by placing of the circumference of a circle with radius 2 feet on top of an isosceles triangle with height 5 feet, as shown above. What is the perimeter, in feet, of the sign?

(A) 3 pi +3 root 3

(B) 3 pi + 6 root 3

(C) 3 pi + 2 root 33

(D) 4 pi + 3 root 3

(E) 4 pi + 6 root 3

can anyone explain how to complete I struck ed half way
attach the picture.
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by naaga » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:14 am
sorry suresh, there is no picture, it is a word problem from 1000 PS
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by x2suresh » Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:38 am
naaga wrote:sorry suresh, there is no picture, it is a word problem from 1000 PS
question say "as shown above" there must be picture.. that is missing from 1000 PS
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by naaga » Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:25 am
I have an idea about the picture but I don't have any tool to draw, IMO 3/4 part of the circle is placed on the vertex of the triangle, think that way and solve it.
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