SOLUTION: A 30-inch television has a screen that is 18 inches high. How wide is the screen?
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Question 927568: A 30-inch television has a screen that is 18 inches high. How wide is the screen?
Answer by srinivas.g(540) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Height (h)= 18 in
30 inch screen means its diagonal length is 30 inches
so diagonal = 30 inches
wide is unknown
as per pythagorean theorem
move 324 to the left
apply square root on both sides
24 = wide
Result : wide =24 inches
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