Question

students wish to hang a banner diagonally across the wall of their classroom. if the wall is 10 feet high and 24 feet long, how long must the banner be

Answer 1

26 ft

Explanation:

Answer 2

Hanging a banner diagonally across the wall makes it so that two triangles form. The hypotenuse of both triangles is the length of the banner. To find the hypotenuse, we use the pythagorean theorem.

Work is handwritten. The answer is 26 ft.