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Round 24ft and 17ft to the nearest tenth.

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Assume the porch is a rectangle. This means the corners are ninety degrees. This allows us to use the Pythagorean Theorem: a2 + b2 = c2

diagonal = square root (172 + 242) = square root (865) ≈ 29.4 feet

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