SOLUTION: CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THIS. measure the height of your computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or sixteenth of of an inch.measure the width of your monit

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Question 111769: CAN SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME SOLVE THIS.
measure the height of your computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or sixteenth of of an inch.measure the width of your monitor as well.use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of the diagnal of the monitor.
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Answer by elima(1433)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
measure the height of your computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a centimeter or sixteenth of of an inch.measure the width of your monitor as well.use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of the diagnal of the monitor.
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Once you measure the height and width of your monitor use those measurements in the Pythagorean theorom;

a = the length
b = the width
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so, for instance, mine would be;




24.8 would be the diagonal of my monitor.
:)

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