Can someone help? This doesnt even sound like english...
The size of a computer monitor is given by the length of the diagonal of the screen. The ratio of the hight to the width of wide-screen monitors is 9:16. find expressions for thw width and the height of a wide-screan monitor in tearms of length of its diagonal.

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Can someone help? This doesnt even sound like english...
The size of a computer monitor is given by the length of the diagonal of the screen. The ratio of the hight to the width of wide-screen monitors is 9:16. find expressions for thw width and the height of a wide-screan monitor in tearms of length of its diagonal.

anonymous · Answer

ok so first make a drawing of a rectangle with a height of 9 and  width of 16. now draw a line for the diagonal. See how that gives you a triangle? use the Pythagorean Theorem to find thw width of the diagonal

anonymous · Answer

the options all have √ in them

anonymous · Answer

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