SOLUTION: The two legs of a right triangle are the same length. The hypotenuse is 2 meters long. Find the length of the legs. Express your answer in simplified radical form, or as a decimal
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Question 1008332: The two legs of a right triangle are the same length. The hypotenuse is 2 meters long. Find the length of the legs. Express your answer in simplified radical form, or as a decimal rounded to four places.
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let each side be x
By Pythagoras theorem
x^2 +x^2 = 4
2x^2 = 4
x^2=2
x =
taking only the positive value
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