SOLUTION: Darla is building a new desk. To make sure she had made a square corner, she measures 4 ft from the corner along one edge and 3 ft from the corner along the other edge. How long sh

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Question 483789: Darla is building a new desk. To make sure she had made a square corner, she measures 4 ft from the corner along one edge and 3 ft from the corner along the other edge. How long should the diagonal be between those two points if the corner is a right angle?
diagonal=___ ft.
round to the nearest thousandth.

Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
5 feet
Pythagorean Theorem

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