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A carpenter wants to make sure that the corner of a triangular frame he is building is a right angle. If he measures two sides of his frame as 5 feet and 12 feet, how long should he make the diagonal?
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A carpenter wants to make sure that the corner of a triangular frame he is building is a right angle. If he measures two sides of his frame as 5 feet and 12 feet, how long should he make the diagonal?

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13 feet
Pythagorus is used
25 + 144 = 169
169 is 13 to the second power etc
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