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Jim takes a piece of plywood that is 45 centimeters long and uses a table saw to make a 53- centimeter cut from corner to opposite corner. What was the width of the piece of plywood? centimeters
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Jim takes a piece of plywood that is 45 centimeters long and uses a table saw to make a 53-

centimeter cut from corner to opposite corner. What was the width of the piece of plywood?
centimeters

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Answer:

28 cm

Explanation:

The corner to corner cut is a hypotenuse. We know one leg, 45cm. So use Pythagorean theorem to solve for the other leg. See image.

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