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The bottom of a 13-foot straight ladder is set into the ground 5 feet away from a wall. When the top of the ladder is leaned against the wall, what is the distance above the ground it will reach?
12 feet
13.9 feet
Your family wants to purchase a new laptop with a 17" widescreen. Since the 17 inches represents the diagonal measurement of the screen (upper corner to lower corner), you want to find out the actual dimensions of the laptop. When you measured the laptop at the store, the height was 10 inches, but you don't remember the width. Calculate the width of the laptop to the nearest tenth of an inch.
7 inches
10 inches
19.7 inches
13.7 inches
Jacona buys a tarp that measures 8 feet wide by 10 feet long. He paints an “x” on the tarp by painting diagonal lines from opposite corners of the tarp. How long is each diagonal line?
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The longest side of a right triangle is called
root
right angle
leg
hypotenuse
When do we use the Pythagorean Theorem?
To find a missing angle in a right triangle
To find the missing length of a right triangle
To find the area of a right triangle
To find the slope of a right triangle
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