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5 A contractor is laying out the sides of a

rectangular porch. She knows that the porch will
form a rectangle if it can be broken up into two
right triangles, as shown below.
The lengths of the two longer sides of the porch
are 24 feet and the lengths of the two shorter
sides are 17 feet. Enter the length of the diagonal
of the porch in feet, rounded to the nearest tenth.

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Answer 29.4.

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