Darla is building a new desk. To make sure she had made a square corner, she measures 5ft from the corner along one edge and 10ft along the corner along the other edge. Ho wlong should the diagonal be between those two points if the corner is a right angle? @Mathematics

Question

Darla is building a new desk. To make sure  she had made a square corner, she  measures 5ft from the corner along one edge  and 10ft along the corner along the other edge. Ho wlong should the diagonal be between those two points if the corner is a right angle? @Mathematics

unklerhaukus · Answer

|dw:1321678623407:dw|
$$d=\sqrt(10^2 +5^2)=\sqrt(125)=5√5=11.18ft$$