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Please assist me wit this question-example-1
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Answer: 65

Explanation:

By the geometric mean theorem, the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse has length
√(25 \cdot 144)=60

So, by the Pythagorean theorem,


x=√(60^2 + 25^2)=65

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