Joel is laying pipe for a sprinkler system before he plants his lawn. The lawn is a rectangle, 15 feet long and 8 feet wide. He needs to lay a piece of pipe that will be run along the diagonal of the lawn. It will divide the area of the lawn into two right triangles. What will be the length of that diagonal piece of pipe? A. 120 feet B. 17 feet C. 289 feet D. 23 feet

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Answer: The correct answer to the question above would be letter C. The diagonal piece of pipe would be 289 feet. I got this through drawing a line in the two opposite corners of the rectangle, giving me a right triangle. Then, i proceeded to using the pythagorean theorem (since two sides are given and the hypotenuse is the one missing.

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