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document.write( "A rectangular park is 12 miles long and 4 miles wide. How long is a pedestrian route that runs diagonally across the park? Answer in simplified radical form.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2. Each side of a square is lengthened by 1 in. The area of the new square is 121 square inched. Find the length of a side in the original square. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "L = sqrt(12^2 + 4^2) = sqrt(144+16) = 12.6 miles.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "As usualy x=ans<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(x+1)^2 = 121<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x+1 = 11<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x=10<BR>\n" );
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