The size of a computer screen is measured along the diagonal. What's the approximate size, to the nearest inch, of a 14 inch by 11.5 inch computer screen?

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The size of a computer screen is measured along the diagonal. What's
the approximate size, to the nearest inch, of a 14 inch by 11.5 inch
computer screen?
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Size of the computer screen is measured to be 14 inches ×11.5 inches and we need to find out the size of screen along the diagonal to nearest inch.

Since the diagonal of the screen and the two measured sides form a right angled triangle, we can apply the  pythagoras theorem to measure the diagonal length.

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