Question

A television screen is a rectangle 53 inches wide and 29 inches long .A television size is advertised as the length of its diagonal. What is the size of the television? In other words. What is the length of the diagonal ? Round your answer to ye nearest hundredths.

Answer 1

Let's begin by listing out the information given to us:

This is a rectangle. A rectangle has its opposite sides congruent and adjacent sides form a right angle

Width (W) = 53 in,

Length (l) = 29 in

We will calculate the diagonal of the rectangle using the Pythagoras Theorem as shown below:

d² = 53² + 29²

d² = 2809 + 894 = 3650

d² = 3650

We take the square of both sides we have:

d = 60.415 ≈ 60.42

d = 60.42