SOLUTION: can you please help me solve this question: (((If one side of a right triangle is 12 and its hypotenuse is 13, what is the length of the other side?)))

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: can you please help me solve this question: (((If one side of a right triangle is 12 and its hypotenuse is 13, what is the length of the other side?))) This question is from textbook algebra structure and method

Answer by EMStelley(208) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Remember that for right triangles, we have a theorem relating the three sides: Pythagorean's Theorem. If c is the hypotenuse and a, b are the other two sides, we have that

So if we know that the hypotenuse is 13 and one of the sides (call it a, it doesn't matter) is 12, we have that:

So b=5.
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