Erin is a homebuilder and owns land that is miles along a shoreline. The
town building codes require that each house has a lot of at least Iz of a mile.
What is the greatest number of houses Erin can build along the shoreline?

step-by-step explanation:

this can be solved first with pythagorean theorem, which tells us to square both legs of the triangle and sum it. this will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

the hypotenuse is the side "opposite" the 90 degree angle, which is x.

so we can write using pythagorean theorem,

simplifying:

to further simplify this radical, we need to use the property  

thus

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