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A triangle has a side lengths of 3 and 8. The diagonal has a length of 11. Can this be a right triangle? Show your work to prove whether it is or is not. Fastest answer gets bainliest!!
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A triangle has a side lengths of 3 and 8. The diagonal has a length of 11. Can this be a right triangle? Show your work to prove whether it is or is not.

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if the triangle is a right triangle, the pythagorean theorem would work
since it doesn’t, the triangle is NOT A RIGHT TRIANGLE

(see attached pic for work :))
A triangle has a side lengths of 3 and 8. The diagonal has a length of 11. Can this-example-1
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