Question

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

Answer 1

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.