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Question 997941: The diagonal of a square is 30cm. Find the length of the sides of the square. Using the Pythagorean theorem
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Question 997941: The diagonal of a square is 30cm. Find the length of the sides of the square. Using the Pythagorean theorem
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Question 998005: the problem is to determine the length of the unknown side using the Pythagorean theorem I understood everything until the last it says
"Solve for c by taking the square root of both sides"
what does that mean
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Question 998379: A guy wire is attached to the top of a pole at a 63 degree angle from the ground. What is the height of the pole? round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 998381: Liola drives 16 KM up a hill that is at a grade of 10 degrees. What horizontal distance, to the nearest tenth of a KM, has she covered?
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Question 998380: An 8 foot ladder is leaning against a wall. The bottom of the ladder is 33 inches from the bottom of the wall. What is the measure of the angle that the ladder forms with the ground?
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Question 999126: why might your measurements of the hypotenuse on a right triangle be different than the the length you found using the Pythagorean Theorem?
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Question 999740: A rectangular block stands 12 inches tall with a diagonal measuring 13 inches. What is is the length of the base?
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Question 1001689: A pole is broken by the storm of wind and its top struck the ground at an angle
30° and at a distance of 20m from the foot of the pole. The height of the pole
before it was broken was?
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Question 1002296: Given: m∠DBA=45�; m∠DEB=45�;
Prove: ∠DBC ≅ ∠FEB
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Question 1002296: Given: m∠DBA=45�; m∠DEB=45�;
Prove: ∠DBC ≅ ∠FEB
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Question 1002734: the diagonal (hypotenuse) of a large right triangle is 6 mi long, if one leg is 2 mi long how long is the other leg?

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Question 1002769: area of square is 169 centimeter square . find its side?

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Question 1002769: area of square is 169 centimeter square . find its side?

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Question 1003128: Find the value of x in this diagram.
http://imgur.com/IbkSbNZ
Please explain the steps. Thanks
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Question 1005015: A drawing of a teepee has the shape of a right triangle with one leg 8 meters longer than the other, The hypotenuse is 8 meters less than twice the length of the shorter leg? What are the steps with the solution?
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Question 1005646: A pencil box, in the shape of a rectangular prism, measures 16 cm by 12 cm by 8 cm. Find the length of the longest pencil that would fit inside a box.
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Question 1005645: A 25 meter ladder leans against a vertical wall. The foot of the ladder is 20 meter from the base of the wall. If the foot is moved 13 meter closer to the wall, how far does the top of the ladder move up the wall?
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Question 1006899: The shorter leg of a right triangle is 7 foot shorter than the longer leg. The hypotenuse is 7 foot longer than the longer leg. Find the side lengths of the triangle.

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Question 1007670: A lion gets loose from the zoo. He goes 50m due west then turns and goes 20m due north.
1. Calculate the lion's displacement from the zoo(how far and direction).
2. Calculate the distance the lion traveled.
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Question 1007682: In right triangleABC , the length of the hypotenuse is 25 and the lengths of the legs are x and 3x + 3. What is
the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 1007994: A symmetrical square-based pyramid has height 10 cm and slant edges of 15 cm. Find the dimensions of its square base.
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Question 1008332: The two legs of a right triangle are the same length. The hypotenuse is 2 meters long. Find the length of the legs. Express your answer in simplified radical form, or as a decimal rounded to four places.
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Question 1008618: The right triangle has a square attached to its hypotenuse.What is the perimeter of the triangle?Give your answer to the nearest tenth of a centimetre.
square = 914 cm2
traiangle =17cm
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Question 1009603: the area of a square is 144 square centimaters.find the length of the diagonal. write your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 1010145: Could the set of numbers be the measures of the sides of a right triangle: 5, 12, 13? (Prove your answer using Pythagorean Theorem, a2+b2=c2)
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Question 1010358: I have a 42 inch tv display. The height is 21 inches. How do I find out the width? Rounding it to the nearest tenth.
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Question 1010730: I received a 32% on my final and it brought my 77% to a 68%, can my teacher round that up to a 70% or is that not allowed.
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Question 1010766: A15 foot wire attached to the top of the , it touches the ground 9 feet out, how tall is the wall.
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Question 1011181: The pyramid ABCDE has a square base. The pyramid is 20cm high. Each sloping edge measures 30cm.
Calculate the length of the side of the base.
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Question 1011666: 18,24,36
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Question 1011938: Two people were walking in opposite directions. Both of them walked 6 miles forward then took right and walked 8 miles. How far is each from starting positions?
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Question 1012276: A car goes 24miles due north then 7miles due east .What is the straight distance between the car's starting point and end point ?
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Question 1012446: An 18-foot ladder leans against the wall of a building. The base of the ladder is 9 feet from the building on level ground.
How many feet up the wall, is the top of the ladder? Leave your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 1012490: A wire connects to the top of a radio tower for support. The wire is positioned such that the base of the wire is 80 feet from the base of the radio tower. If the tower is 150 feet high, how long is the wire? I need help by using Pythagorean theorem
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Question 1012943: angle ABC=110 degrees,angle AB=12cm,angle BC=12cm find angle AC.
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Question 1013312: the perimeter of an isoceles triangle is 27ft. the lenght of the third side is 3ft. less than the lenght is one of the congroent side. find the measures of three sides triangle
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Question 1013348: The length of and isosceles right triangle is the square root of 288 units. Explain how to find the length of a leg.
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Question 1013366: Segment MH has a length of 5 cm.Segment AM has a length of 13 cm. If segment AT is 6 cm long, what is the length of segment TH?
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Question 1013431: The diagonals of a rhombus are 12cm and 9cm long.calculate the length of one side of the rhombus.
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