(HELP NEEDED) A claw arcade machine contains stuffed animals and mystery boxes. There are 44 items in the machine. Winning a stuffed animal has three times as many favorable outcomes as winning a mystery box. How many of each item is in the machine?

the answer is a

step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

this can be solved first with pythagorean theorem, which tells us to square both legs of the triangle and sum it. this will be equal to the square of the hypotenuse.

the hypotenuse is the side "opposite" the 90 degree angle, which is x.

so we can write using pythagorean theorem,

simplifying:

to further simplify this radical, we need to use the property  

thus