Question

What is the length of the diagonal line segment BD in the rectangle below? Round to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

This is the picture that goes along.

Answer 2

you should be able to see what the width and height of this rectangle are. what values do you get for them?

Answer 3

By width and height you mean like, it's 5x9?

Answer 4

yes - you have the correct values for width and height.

once you know the width, w, and the height, h, the length of BD can be found using the Pythagorus Theorem:\[BD^2=w^2+h^2\]