Question

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The length of a diagonal of a square sandbox is 9 feet.


What is the approximate length of one side of the sandbox?

Answer 1

ok so you have a square box and the diagonal is 9 right?

Answer 2

Right

Answer 3

Do you know what the length of the entire outside is?

Answer 4

ok and diagonal is the samelength of a side right?

Answer 5

The diagonal is not the same as one side.

Answer 6

No @ScarlettBlack

Answer 7

no its square root of (10 spuared +10 squared )

Answer 8

so the side length is 20

Answer 9

@wakeboarder Thats not one of my answer choices tho

Answer 10

what are your choices

Answer 11

it should be around 6 or 6.3

Answer 12

no it should be 14

Answer 13

d=square root of 2 * a
Solving for
a
a=2 d/2 = square root of 2 * 9/2 = 6.36

Answer 14

Can I see your choices?

Answer 15

oh i was using 10

Answer 16

yeah its 6.36

Answer 17

Unfortunately I have to go now.

Answer 18

no its wrong

Answer 19

about 12.5

Answer 20

ok sorry. :)
Here are my choices :

A.
4.5 ft

B.
5.2 ft

C.
6.4 ft

D.
12.7 ft

Answer 21

d.12.7