SOLUTION: A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 25 and a leg of length 20. What is the length of the right leg? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 612386: A right triangle has a hypotenuse of length 25 and a leg of length 20. What is the length of the right leg? If necessary, round your answer to two decimal places.
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem
You will notice that the sides are in a ratio of 15:20:25
Which is 3:4:5
Any triangle in ratio 3:4:5 is a right triangle.
That comes up a lot, so you might want to memorize that.
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