SOLUTION: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15 units in length.

SOLUTION: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15 units in length.

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Question 705598: Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15 units in length.
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

let the hypotenuse be ,and legs and
given:
and
since we have a right triangle, we will use Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse
.......plug in given values for and

...we will use only positive root because the length of the hypotenuse cannot be negative number
...so,the length of the hypotenuse is units in length

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