The length of the hypotenuse in inches is 2 square root 13
1.23 is the correct answer
We analyze the linear function to find that it has equation

. Drawing the line, we find that it
will intersect the circle at negative and positive x-coordinates.We can prove this by
substituting 
into the given equation:




Hence,

or

, so there are both positive and negative values for

.
The answer to your question is c