SOLUTION: Can someone help me with this problem? I'm not too sure what to do: When a television is advertised as a 27-inch model, the screen is a rectangle with a diagonal of 27 inches.

Question 1088094: Can someone help me with this problem? I'm not too sure what to do:
When a television is advertised as a 27-inch model, the screen is a rectangle with a diagonal of 27 inches. The screen has a height of 15 inches. Find the length , to the nearest hundredth of an inch of the television
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem,

So,

Use your calculator.

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