SOLUTION: if you have the hypotenuse for a isosceles right triangle how do you find the legs?

SOLUTION: if you have the hypotenuse for a isosceles right triangle how do you find the legs?

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Question 362964: if you have the hypotenuse for a isosceles right triangle how do you find the legs?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = measure of either one of the congruent legs, c = measure of the hypotenuse. Then by Pythagorean theorem,
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