SOLUTION: The diagonal of a square piece of glass is 6 inches longer than the length of a side. What is the equation I would use to represent the problem?

Question 324077: The diagonal of a square piece of glass is 6 inches longer than the length of a side. What is the equation I would use to represent the problem?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The sides and the diagonal form a right triangle.
Use the Pythagorean theorem.

But you also know that,

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