pythagorean theorem

Question

Measure the width of a computer monitor to the nearest tenth of a cm or sixteenth of an inch. Measure the length of your monitor as well. Use pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal length of the monitor.

Answer 1

Put the length and width of your monitor into the formula

A^2 + B^2 = C^2

a  is the length of the monitor, b is the width and c is the diagonal.

Then solve for C.

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Answer 2

square the two shortest sides then add them together and find the square root of that number

Answer 3

2m-1,2m+1,2m

Answer 4

in a right angle triangle,the square on the hypotenuse is equal to sum of the other two sides.