rectangle has a perimeter of 28 inches and a length of 8 inches.  What is the diagonal measurement of this rectangle?  The perimeter of a rectangle is 2 times the length plus 2 times the width.  When a diagonal is drawn across a rectangle, two right triangles are created, whose leg lengths are equal to the length and width of the rectangle, and the diagonal becomes the hypotenuse of the triangle.  So the Pythagorean Theorem can be used. The diagonal measurement is ___ inches as

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A rectangle has a perimeter of 28 inches and a length of 8 inches.  What is the diagonal measurement of this rectangle?

 The perimeter of a rectangle is 2 times the length plus 2 times the width.  When a diagonal is drawn across a rectangle, two right triangles are created, whose leg lengths are equal to the length and width of the rectangle, and the diagonal becomes the hypotenuse of the triangle.  So the Pythagorean Theorem can be used.

The diagonal measurement is ___ inches as 

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