SOLUTION: s^2=36 Jolie works for a company where she helps design educational toys and games currently she is working on a game which involves interlocking picture pieces. The individual

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Question 310062: s^2=36
Jolie works for a company where she helps design educational toys and games currently she is working on a game which involves interlocking picture pieces. The individual triangular pieces inter lock to form squares. she wants the area of the squares to be 36 square centimeters. Appropriately what is the length of the hypotenuse of one of the triangular pieces ?

Answer by checkley77(12844) About Me  (Show Source):
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s=sqrt36
s=6 cm.
a^2+b^2=c^2
6^2+6^2=c^2
36+36=c^2
c^2=72
c=sqrt72
c=8.4853 cm. is the length of the diagonal.