问题
单项选择题
The size of a flat-screen television is given as the length of the screen’s diagonal. How many square inches greater is the screen of a square 34-inch flat-screen television than a square 27-inch fiat-screen television ?()
A. 106.75
B. 213.5
C. 427
D. 729
E. 1,156
答案
参考答案:B
解析:
The question specifies that the televisions are square, so the diagonals are part of 45-45-90 triangles. This means that the side of such a television is the diagonal divided by . This would be an awkward number to deal with, but the question calls for areas, so you need to square the length of a side in order to get the area of the screen, thereby removing the square root. Set up the equation