Solve for the missing side length.
What is the length of the missing side?
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a= 3cm
b= 4cm
c= x
c = 5cm
The ladder is placed 12 feet from the wall. The top of the ladder touches a spot that is 16 feet off of the ground. How long is the ladder?
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The ladder is 20 feet tall.
What is the distance between points A and B? Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The square root of 11 or 3.3
Given the following side lengths: 3, 4, 5 Would they form a right triangle? Make sure to show your work!
Yes, these side lenghts would form a right triangle.
What is the length of the missing side?
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a= 9cm
b= x cm
c= 14 cm
b = 10.7 cm
A softball diamond is a square that is 30 feet on each side. What is the distance a catcher has to throw the ball from home to second base (diagonal)?
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The square root of 1800 or 42.2 feet.
What is the distance between points B and C? Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The square root of 13 or 3.6.
Given the following side lengths: 12, 12, 9 Would they form a right triangle? Make sure to show your work!
No, these side lengths would NOT form a right triangle.
What is the length of the missing side?
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a=x
b= 12cm
c=13cm
a= 5 cm
During the winter, Mrs. Ribby walks 200 meters west and then 45 meters north to get to school. During the spring she can take a shortcut across a field to save time. What’s the distance between home and school if she can take the shortcut (diagonal).
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If Mrs. Ribby can take the shortcut her walk to school is 205 meters long.
What is the distance between points C and A? Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The square root of 58 or 7.6.
Given the following side lengths: 8, 10, 6 Would they form a right triangle? Make sure to show your work!
Yes, these side lengths would form a right triangle.
What is the length of the missing side?
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a = 7cm
b = x
c = 18 cm
b = 16.6 cm
A football field is a rectangle, which measures 100 yds long and 53 yds wide. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the other corner diagonally across. What is that distance?
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The diagonal distance is the square root of 12809 yds or 113.2 yd.
What is the distance between points A and D? Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The square root of 113 or 10.6.
Given the following side lengths: 12, 11, 13 Would they form a right triangle? Make sure to show your work!
What is the length of the missing side?
Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
a= x
b= 9 cm
c= 16 cm
a = 13.2 cm
How far from the base of the house do you need to place a 30-foot ladder so that it exactly reaches the top of a 20- foot tall wall?
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The square root of 500 or 22.4 feet away from the wall.
What is the distance between points A and F? Show your work and round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The square root of 153 or 12.4.
Given the following side lengths: 36, 48, 60 Would they form a right triangle? Make sure to show your work!
These side lengths would form a right triangle.