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What is the value of X?

What is the value of X?-example-1
User Cory Gross
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Answer:

C

Explanation:

using Pythagoras' identity in the right triangle

the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other 2 sides , that is

x² = 40² + 9² = 1600 + 81 = 1681 ( take square root of both sides )

x =
√(1681) = 41

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