SOLUTION: One leg of a right triangle is 7cm shorter than the other leg. How long should the shorter leg be to ensure that the hypotenuse is at least 13cm?
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Question 1168238: One leg of a right triangle is 7cm shorter than the other leg. How long should the shorter leg be to ensure that the hypotenuse is at least 13cm?
Answer by math_helper(2461) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the shorter leg. Then:
Eventually this simplfies to:
which has the positive solution
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