What is the length of the diagonal from B to D of this rectangle? Round your answ to the nearest tenth of a metre.

Mrooney asked Mar 6, 2023

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What is the length of the diagonal from B to D of this rectangle? Round your answ

to the nearest tenth of a metre.

Mrooney asked Mar 6, 2023

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Answer: 19.7

Explanation:

By the Pythagorean theorem,

$(BD)^(2)=8^(2)+18^(2)\\\\(BD)^(2)=388\\\\BD=√(388) \approx \boxed{19.7}$

Apeiron answered Mar 13, 2023

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