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The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than it's width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle?
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The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than it's width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle?
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The length of a rectangle is 1 cm longer than it's width. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 4 cm, what are the dimensions (length and width) of the rectangle? Answer by MathLover1(20855) (Show Source):
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The length of a rectangle is longer than it's width
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the diagonal of the rectangle is
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use Pythagorean Theorem
………you need only positive root
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