SOLUTION: Jamie used the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the missing side of the triangle shown.
He did the following calculations:
x(squared)+7(squared)=
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He did the following calculations:
x(squared)+7(squared)=
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Question 269024: Jamie used the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the missing side of the triangle shown.
He did the following calculations:
x(squared)+7(squared)=10(squared
x(squared) = 10(squared) -7(squared)
x(squared) = 51
x = square root 51
x ≈ 7.1
Why did Jamie not get the correct answer?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If 10 is the hypotenuse, he got it right.
If 10 is not the hypotenuse, he should have added the squares of the sides.
Or, maybe it's not a right triangle.
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Since no figure is shown, there's no way to know.
