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GED Math 4.5 Measurement. What is the longest clothesline Isaac could possibly hang in his backyard?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by clothes lines back in the

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day They weren't just a bunch of blouses endorsed by

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justin bieber Isaac's backyard is rectangular and measures thirty nine

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feet by fifty two feet What is the longest clothes

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line Isaac could possibly hang in his backyard and hear

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the potential answer Isaac's dreyer is apparently going and we

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told them he should have gotten that warranty But anyway

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he's got his back yard That thirty nine by fifty

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two and he wants to hang the longest clothes line

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He possibly can make sense You should see the number

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of socks is going home You wanna hang lungs line

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then we'll want to hang it diagonally from one corner

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of the yard to the other Right Right In that

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case we've got a right triangle with legs of fifty

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two and thirty nine labeled right here while time for

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the pythagorean theorem to make an appearance If a squared

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plus b squared equals c squared which it does then

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we can plug in fifty two for a and thirty

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nine for b well fifty two squared is two thousand

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seven hundred for thirty nine squared is one thousand five

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hundred twenty one who's seven o four plus one five

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to one is four to five Five who are high

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pot news has to be the square root of four

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thousand two hundred twenty five Well our krusty calculator tells

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us that that number comes out to be sixty five 00:01:18.468 --> [endTime] which is answer D as in drying socks

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