SOLUTION: What size is the television screen shown in the illustration? Find d if a = 12 and b = 16.

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Question 330809: What size is the television screen shown in the illustration? Find d if a = 12 and b = 16.
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Don't see an illustration but I'm assuming a and b are the length and width and the diagonal D is the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
Use the Pythagorean theorem,





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