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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

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