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What is the measure of the missing side to the nearest tenth?

What is the measure of the missing side to the nearest tenth?-example-1

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Answer:

17

Explanation:

The given is a right triangle and the side length that is represented by x is called hypotenuse. Now:

The square length of hypotenuse is equal to the sum of square value of two legs:

9^2 + 15^2 = x^2

81 + 225 = x^2

306 = x^2 find the square root of both sides

17 = x

This is an approximate value since they asked us to find the value nearest tenth, if not we can write the root of 306 as
√(306) only

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