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a 20 cm drinking straw sits diagonally in a glass of radius 3 cm and height 10 cm. what length of straw in the glass?
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a 20 cm drinking straw sits diagonally in a glass of radius 3 cm and height 10 cm. what length of straw in the glass?

User PJ Tikalsky
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This is a Pythagorean Theorem problem. We don't need to know how long the whole straw is.

3^2 + 10^2 = x^2
9 + 100 = x^2
109 = x^2
x = sqrt 109
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