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Question 1038898: how do you figure out how to find the length of leg a when you know leg b and the hypotenuse
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how do you figure out how to find the length of leg a when you know leg b and the hypotenuse c.
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Like millions of other people, we use the Pythagorean theorem
a = .
On Pythagorean theorem see the lessons
- The Pythagorean Theorem
- More proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem
in this site.
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