Big Ideas Math Geometry, 2014
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Exercise 2 Page 59

QR consists of QS and SR. How do their lengths affect QR?

12 units

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The line segment QR consists of QS and SR. Therefore, QR is the sum of QS and SR.

This gives us QS+47=59 ⇔ QS=59-47=12. Thus, the length of QS is 12 units.