2. Medusa is looking for a TV screen big enough for her
and her head of snakes to enjoy her favorite soap opera.
Mngotoxo.
G TV is listed as being 60 inches. This
distance is act|ially the diagonal distance across the
screen. If thereen measures 36 inches in height, what
is the actual width of the screen to the nearest tenth of
an inch?

48 Inches

Step-by-step explanation:

The diagonal of the TV = 60 Inches

Height of the Screen =36 Inches

We are to determine the actual width of the screen.

This TV across the diagonal forms a right triangle in which the diagonal is the hypotenuse.

We therefore use the Pythagorean Theorem to solve for the width of the screen.

Pythagorean Theorem:

Let w be the width of the television

step-by-step explanation:

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take the logarithm of both sides (the base of the log doesn't matter):

apply the exponent property - this says that :

distribute the log terms on both sides:

group like terms together:

divide through both sides by the coefficient on :

you can do some additional rewriting here using the properties of the logarithm to simplify things if you like: