Gina looked at the architectural plan of a room with four walls in which the walls meet each other at right angles. The length of one wall in the plan is 17 inches. The length of the diagonal of the floor of the room in the plan is approximately 18.79 inches.

Is the room in the shape of a square? Explain how you determined your answer. Show all your work.

Please help, this is stressing me out

Question

Gina looked at the architectural plan of a room with four walls in which the walls meet each other at right angles. The length of one wall in the plan is 17 inches. The length of the diagonal of the floor of the room in the plan is approximately 18.79 inches.

Is the room in the shape of a square? Explain how you determined your answer. Show all your work.

Please help, this is stressing me out

ZdaddYjayjay · Answer

Using the Pythagorean theorem, the hypotenuse should be the 18.79 and one of the legs would be 17 inches

Ahahano408 · Answer

Ohh, so it’s like cutting the “square” in half?

ZdaddYjayjay · Answer

Yea sum like that

ZdaddYjayjay · Answer

I hope this helps you i might get a warning for giving u the answer

Ahahano408 · Answer

Oop, I hope it doesn’t. It did help me some though! Thank you :)

ZdaddYjayjay · Answer

Your welcome any time

Vocaloid · Answer

In order for the room to be a square, both legs must be equal. Use the Pythagorean theorem, plug in the leg and hypotenuse, and calculate the length of the other leg. If the other leg is also 17, then the room is a square. Otherwise it’s not a square.