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What is the length of the diagonal of the rectangle?

What is the length of the diagonal of the rectangle?-example-1
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Answer:

21.25

Explanation:

The Pythagorean theorem tells you the length of hypotenuse c of a right triangle with legs 'a' and 'b' is ...

c = √(a² +b²)

Here, that means the diagonal length d is ...

d = √(17² +12.75²) = √(289 +162.5625) = √451.5625

d = 21.25 . . . . length of the diagonal

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