What is the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle shown below? If necessary, round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

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anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

can you determine the lengths of the sides?

anonymous · Answer

huh

anonymous · Answer

the lengths of the sides means how long each side is

anonymous · Answer

i'm confused on how to get the answer

anonymous · Answer

do you know how to determine a length when you have two points ?

anonymous · Answer

not one bit,

anonymous · Answer

there are a few ways to do this.  but the easiest is just use the distance equation

$$distance = \sqrt{(x_{2} - x_{1})^{2} + (y_{2} - y_{1})^{2}}$$

the points on the hypotenuse of that triangle are

(4, 2) and (-5, -3) it looks like

so just calculate the distance between those two points

anonymous · Answer

are you in conexus

anonymous · Answer

that's the easy way.  the other way is to calculate the lengths of the sides separately

just by looking at the picture, the length of the top side is 9 and the length of the left side is 5

9^2 + 5^2 = c^2

anonymous · Answer

i don't know what conexus is but it called graphing data for my work?

anonymous · Answer

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maybe that will help ?