SOLUTION: What are the dimensions of a right triangle where the hypotenuse is 10 and the area is 20?
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Question 369221: What are the dimensions of a right triangle where the hypotenuse is 10 and the area is 20?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
From the given, , from the Pythagorean theorem. Also, , or , or . By direct substitution, , or
,
. From this we get
or . For each value of h we get or respectively. Therefore there is only basically one right triangle formed, one whose leg is and the other leg .
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