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Ellen is decorating a ballroom ceiling with garland. If the rectangular ceiling is 48 feet by 64 feet, how much garland will Ellen need to reach from one corner of the ceiling to the opposite corner

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80 feet; (use Pythagorean Theorem: leg^2 + leg^2 = hyp^2 )
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