Question

1. What is the value of x? Show all of your work.

Answer 1

You can use the pathagorean theorm.
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$
$a^2 + 6^2 = \sqrt{117}^2$
$a^2 + 36 = 117$
$a^2 = 117 - 36$
$a^2 = 81$
$\sqrt{a^2} = \sqrt{81}$
$a = 9$
x = 9