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What is the length of AC?
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What is the length of AC?

What is the length of AC?-example-1
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Answer:

A

Explanation:

We can see that the two triangles are similar, and are in a 17:1 ration since 51/3 = 17

Now we can set up the equation

144-x = 17x

adding x to both sides we get

144 = 18x

dividing by 18 we get

x = 8

Now we plug x = 8 back in and get

144-8 = 136

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