Pythagorean Theorem Finding Missing Side Practice

Find the value for x.

(Round to the nearest tenth.)

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Best buy is advertising a desktop monitor as 20 inches (diagonal length of the screen). If the screen is 12 inches high, what is the width of the screen? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

• 16 inches

• 8 inches

• 14 inches

• 18 inches

The width of a rectangle is 4 feet, and the diagonal length of the rectangle is 13 feet. Which measurement is closest to the length of this rectangle in feet?

• 9 ft

• 17 ft

• 12.4 ft

• 13.6 ft

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In a computer catalog, a computer monitor is listed as being 27 inches. This distance is the diagonal distance across the screen. If the screen measures 15 inches in height, what is the actual width of the screen to the nearest inch? 

• 22 in

• 23 in

• 24 in

• 25 in

The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 in. The width is 15 in. What is the length? 

• 525 in

• 27 in

• 23 in

• 10 in

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 20 in.

• 68 in.

• 16 in.

• 80 in.

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 48 in.

• 52 in.

• 16 in.

• 24 in.

Find the length of the missing side

• 48

• 108

• 83.6

• 72

Casey travels from her house directly west to the bank and then directly north from the bank to the mall. She then travels home on the road connecting the mall and her house. What is her total distance traveled?

• 17 miles

• 32 miles

• 37 miles

• 40 miles

What is the longest side of a right triangle called?

• Leg A

• Leg B

• Hypotenuse

• Pythagoras' Big Buddy