Pythagorean Theorem Solve for Missing Sides

Find the missing side

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• 61

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. (hint: we are looking for "a or b")

• 16 inches

• 8 inches

• 14 inches

• 18 inches

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? 

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• 23 in

• 24 in

• 25 in

You need a ladder that will reach up a 7.62 metre tall house when placed 3.05 metres away from the house. How tall does the ladder need to be? Which equation could be used to solve the problem?

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

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• 108

• 83.6

• 72

In the figure, what is AD, in centimeters?

• 38

• 48

• 60

• 96

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Find the value of the '?'

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• 48

• 53.3

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