Question

The length of a telescope is 20 inches. Will the telescope fit the length of the diagonal on the base of the box?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Use the pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal. Can you do that?

Answer 3

The diagonal length is using Pythagorean theorem \[\sqrt{10^{2}+16^{2}} = \sqrt{356} = 18.87 < 20\]

Hence, it would not fit.

Answer 4

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem if you need to know Pythagorean theorem