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Problem
Many television screens are rectangles that are measured by the length of their diagonals. The ratio of the horizontal length to the height in a standard television screen is 
. The horizontal length of a "
-inch" television screen is closest, in inches, to which of the following?
Solution
If you divide the television screen into two right triangles, the legs are in the ratio of , and we can let one leg be 
and the other be 
. Then we can use the Pythagorean Theorem.
The horizontal length is 
, which is closest to 
.
See Also
| 2003 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 5 |
Followed by Problem 7 | |
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| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
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