Question

Abe takes a rectangular piece of fabric and cuts from one corner to the opposite corner. If the piece of fabric is 56 inches long and 33 inches wide, how long is the diagonal cut that abe made?

Answer 1

65

Explanation:

Cutting corner to corner in a rectangle would create a right triangle.The length of the cut would be the hypotenuse of the triangle, which can be found using pythagorean theorem, a²+b²=c².

56²+33²=c²

3136+1089=c²

√4225=c

65 = c