Question

The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 . Find the width if the length is 15?

Answer 1

You can solve this with the Pythagorean Theorem. Do you know how to use that?

Answer 2

yes , but i don't how to set up the equation

Answer 3

\[a^{2}+b^{2} = c^{2}\]
So the length and width are a and b (the legs), and 25 is c (the hypotenuse).
Can you plug in and solve?

Answer 4

ok thank you so so much for the help