Posted by shaylin on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 8:18pm.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem.
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
12^2 + 5^2 = c^2
144 + 25 = c^2
169 = c^2
13 = v
13 = c
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