Please help me! Find AC

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asked Sep 25, 2019 47.2k views

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Davejal · Answer 1 · 2019-09-29T06:50:09+0000

We are asked to find the length of

, which measures

. Using the segment addition postulate, we can add the two given expressions for

and

and make it equal to the expression for

.

We've found the value of

, but we aren't done yet. We need to plug in the value we got for

into the expression for

, which is

. Therefore,
$AC \Rightarrow7x\Rightarrow7(8)\Rightarrow\boxed{56}$ . Hope this helped and have a great day!