SOLUTION: a rectangle measures 8cm by 15cm. Make a sketch and use pythagoras rule to calculate the length of one of its diagonals

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Question 780296: a rectangle measures 8cm by 15cm. Make a sketch and use pythagoras rule to calculate the length of one of its diagonals
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The length and width of a rectangle are the legs of a right triangle where the hypotenuse is the diagonal. Plug your numbers into



and then do the arithmetic.

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