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Solve: Tom is building a barn 36 feet wide and 60 feet long. How many feet long will the diagonal be across the footer if the footer is square?

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Solution

For this case we can do the following:

Then we can use the Pythagoras theorem and we can solve for d and we got:


d=\sqrt[]{60^2+36^2}=\sqrt[]{4896}=69.97

Then the answer would be:

69.97 ft

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