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Note that the triangle determined by the hypotenuse and the sides of length 7 and 24 is a right triangle, with 7 and 24 as the base and the diagonal as the hypotenuse. Unless you recall the 7-24-25 right triangle, we can solve for the diagonal d using the Pythagorean theorem:\r
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