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A designer wants to create an apartment in the shape of a right triangle as his new design. If he has three partitions that are 14,9 and 20 feet can he do it?

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Answer:

He Can not do it.

Explanation:


20^2\\ot=14^2+9^2

Pythagorean Theorem: In a right triangle, the square of hypotenuse(longest side) is the sum of the squares of other two sides.

Hence such right triangle does not exist.

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