SOLUTION: Can you please answer this question because I don't understand it. I know the material but we never went over this type of question. "Why is the hypotenuse the longest side of a ri

Question 1056577: Can you please answer this question because I don't understand it. I know the material but we never went over this type of question. "Why is the hypotenuse the longest side of a right triangle?"
By the way this is not graded but he said he could make it a graded assignment.
Thank You if you answered.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"Why is the hypotenuse the longest side of a right triangle?"
:
Think of Pythagoras: a^2 + b^2 = c^2, where c^2 is the hypotenuse
You can't add two values together and get less than one of the values, can you?
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