SOLUTION: What is the Answer? Winton takes a rectangular piece of fabric and cuts from one corner to the opposite corner. If the piece of fabric is 55 centimeters long and 48 centimeters wid

Question 949486: What is the Answer? Winton takes a rectangular piece of fabric and cuts from one corner to the opposite corner. If the piece of fabric is 55 centimeters long and 48 centimeters wide, how long is the diagonal cut that Winton made?
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The diagonal is the hypotenuse of a right triangle, so:
l=length; w=width; d=diagonal

find square root of each side
73 cm=d ANSWER: The length of the diagonal is 73 cm.

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