Question

Television screens are measured along the diagonal. A certain 53-inch television is 45 inches wide. Which measurement represents the length of the hypotenuse?

Answer 1

Diagonal side is always the longest so, the number for they hypotenuse is 53.

Answer 2

Psi is catching all these new people xD

Answer 3

Hero is typing something long, i can tell

Answer 4

i am in trouble

Answer 5

No... Most likely I'm in trouble for not explaining why the diagonal side is longest

Answer 6

@psirockin3 remember to give the asker the opportunity to figure out the answer himself first. In other words, the goal isn't to be the first person to answer the question. The goal is to get the user to figure out how to answer to the problem him or herself. We merely act as GUIDES mostly.

Answer 7

^yep

Answer 8

Yes sir... but what about people who post a question and just leave?

Answer 9

i hate those ppl ಠ_ಠ TROLLERS

Answer 10

I say don't answer their question at all. Say: "what do you think it is", and there

Answer 11

If they don't answer, well, we all know.

Answer 12

We're working on a few features. One feature is for users, when offline, the helper should tag the user. Once tagged, the asker will receive an email alerting them that someone has responded to their question.

Answer 13

I wouldn't like that. My email is full enough....

Answer 14

Maybe an option for new users?

Answer 15

@Eiwoh2 yeah, but most those emails you don't read are ones you don't really care about. If you genuinely are looking for help or guidance with a problem and you happen to go offline, it would be convenient if you received an alert when someone on QC responded to your question.

Answer 16

;-; hm.

Answer 17

Most likely they'd ignore it and think it was a suspension notification (Like the ones you'd get off OS from Satan and Satan's wife)

Answer 18

@psirockin3 obviously, the subject line would read something like " @psirockin3 has just responded to your question" rather than "Suspension Notification".

Answer 19

oh... good point.

Answer 20

XD

Answer 21

I love how we just turned this question into some sort of discussion XD, can you close it now, @Hero ?

Answer 22

I'm guessing his repply isn't just going to be "sure"

Answer 23

Yep. Definetely not a simple word and action

Answer 24

All the posts should be discussions, except in this case, we ideally would want it to be about mathematics in a perfect world. But this is not a perfect world and some of the helpers go off on a tangent and start deviating from the script, making up their own as they go along. We need to have discussions to bring things back to proper order. Without proper discussion, chaos manifests.

Answer 25

yeah but this has nothing to do with the math question asked. :\

Answer 26

Read what I posted nine more times until you have understood it fully.

Answer 27

(leaves)

Answer 28

Happy now?

Answer 29

¯\_(ツ)_/¯