SOLUTION: Jenn and Aaron are adding an extra room to their house. The blueprints indicate the room should be a rectangle with dimensions 9 feet by 12 feet. If they construct the rectangular

Question 523349: Jenn and Aaron are adding an extra room to their house. The blueprints indicate the room should be a rectangle with dimensions 9 feet by 12 feet. If they construct the rectangular room correctly, how long should each diagonal be?
Answer by gsmani_iyer(201) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The diagonal should be 15 feet.
The diagonal is not given. So the given data, 9 feet and 12 feet must be the two sides of a right angled triangle. As per Pythagorean theorem,
Hypotenuse(diagonal) =
=
= So diagonal which is the hypotenuse = 15 feet.
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