SOLUTION: One leg of a right triangle is twice as long as the other. Write the length of the hypotenuse as a function of the length of the shorter leg.
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Question 347859: One leg of a right triangle is twice as long as the other. Write the length of the hypotenuse as a function of the length of the shorter leg.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let one leg be x
other leg = 2x
hypotenuse = sqrt(x^2 + (2x)^2)
= sqrt 5x^2
= xsqrt5
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