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If a cone has a slant height of 25 inches and a radius of 7 inches what is the
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Hi Carmen,
I drew a diagram of the cone you described, not to scale.
Triangle $ABC$ is a right triangle and you want the length of the side $BC.$ Maybe Pythagoras can help.
Harley
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