SOLUTION: An advertisement claims that a television has a 56 inch screen, which woulds be the length of the diagonal of the screen. If the screen is 40 inches long, find the height of the sc

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Question 1058755: An advertisement claims that a television has a 56 inch screen, which woulds be the length of the diagonal of the screen. If the screen is 40 inches long, find the height of the screen to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean Theorem.

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