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What is the approximate length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle?

What is the approximate length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle?-example-1
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Answer:

Explanation:

Looking at the hypotenuse, we see that the vertical change from (2, -6) to (0, 4) is 10 and the horizontal change 2.

Applying the Pythagorean Theorem, we get

(length of hypotenuse) = √[ 10^2 + 2^2 ], or sqrt 104. This result is slightly larger than 10 ( 10.2)

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