Asked by ben hen

A certain television is advertised as a 85-inch TV (the diagonal length). If the width of the TV is 67 inches, how tall is the TV? Round to the nearest tenth of an inch.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Use the Pythagorean theorem: height = sqrt(diagonal^2 − width^2).

height = sqrt(85^2 − 67^2) = sqrt(7225 − 4489) = sqrt(2736) ≈ 52.3 inches.

So the TV is about 52.3 inches tall (to the nearest tenth).