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Baileigh is using a piece of string to hang a painting on the wall. The back of the painting is diagrammed below. 36 cm 36 cm 15 cm 15 cm Note: Figure is not drawn to scale. What is the length of the string?
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Baileigh is using a piece of string to hang a painting on the wall. The back of the painting is diagrammed below.

36 cm 36 cm



15 cm
15 cm
Note: Figure is not drawn to scale.

What is the length of the string?

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We can use Pythagoras to find this out

The length of each string would be :
x^2 = 36^2 + 15^2

x^2 = 1521

x = √1521
= 39

Total length of the string = 39 + 39

= 78 centimeters



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