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5) Mary is taking a swimming lesson on a rectangular pool which is 9 meters wide and 12 meters long. Find the area of the swimming pool. 1). What is asked?

2).What are given?
3).What is/are the operation/s to be used?
4). What is the number sentence?
5). What is the answer?​

User Ckruse
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Answer:

c=15m.

Step-by-step explanation:

For this problem, you'll want to use the Quadratic Formula, remember a2+b2=c2.

Since you have the two sides of your triangle, you're trying to find the hypotenuse (always c), which is the longest side of the right triangle, and also the diagonal in this problem. plugging in 9 for a and 12 for b we get:

92+122=c2 from here we can simplify to:

81+144=c2

c2=225 then we want to take the square root of both sides to obtain c.

Therefore, c=15m.

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