Sam has 16 pounds of cat food is going to separate it into 1/4 pound portions. How many portions of cat food will he have
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It's a parallelogram so if one angle is 90 degrees they all will be because of transverse angles and all that good stuff.
So we're given the diagonal of a rectangle and one side and we're asked to find the other. The diagonal of a rectangle is the hypotenuse of the right triangle whose legs are the sides of the rectangle. So this is a Pythagorean Theorem question in disguise:
Answer: 140 cm
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