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You don't. A rectangle doesn't have a hypoteneuse, only a right-angled triangle has a hypoteneuse.

As for the diagonal of a rectangle, you can draw it from any vertex to the opposite vertex. It's length is the square root of the sum of the squares of the longer and the shorter side-lengths.

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