27. A carpenter is installing diagonal supports to a glass window. If he measures the bottom of the window as 4 ft. and the side of the window as 6 ft., how long should he cut the diagonal support?
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The Pythagorean theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. This can be written as: a² + b² = c². In this case, Show more…
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