SOLUTION: if a rectangle is 3 meters wide and 10meters long. How long is teh diagonal of the rectangle?

Question 254917: if a rectangle is 3 meters wide and 10meters long. How long is teh diagonal of the rectangle?
Answer by blwinbbbles(106) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So one side is 3 meter and the other is 10meters
If you divide the rectangle by a diagonal, you now have a triangle..but the height and width of the triangle are the same as the rectangle
in a triangle a^2 + b^2 = c^2 with c being the length of the diagonal
so: side a = 3 meters side b = 10
so 3^2 + 10^2 = c^2
9 + 100 = c^2
109 = c^2 take the square root of both sides
10.4 = c
hope this helps

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