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HELP ME PLEASE!
Please help me measure the diagonal of a triangle. so stressed. All I can tell u is that one side is 11 inches and the other 2 are 8 inches. It has a right angle. Please help!

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wizard123
Do you mean the hypotenuse of the triangle?

If so, you can use pythagorean theorem:

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

11^2 + 8^2 = c^2

121 + 64 = 185 = c^2

c = sqrt(185) = 13.6