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The inner square has sides of 3 inches and the outer square has sides
of 6 inches. What is the length, in inches, of
X? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

The inner square has sides of 3 inches and the outer square has sides of 6 inches What is the length in inches of X Round your answer to the nearest hundredth class=

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X is the hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle. The length of the sides are the difference of the inner and outer squares divided by 2. Which means that the sides of the triangle is 1.5 inches. Using that information, the length of X can be deduced to be 2.12 inches using Pythagoras theorem