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A windowpane is 63 inches tall and the diagonal distance from one corner to the other is 65 inches. How wide is the windowpane?

User Ron Jonk
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Answer:

16 inches

Explanation:

Using the Pythagorean theorem, the distance is
√(65^2-63^2)=16.

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