SOLUTION: in a right angled triangle the length of one of the sides forming the right angle is 4 cm more than twice the length of the other side. if the area of triangle is 120 cmsq. find it

Question 992138: in a right angled triangle the length of one of the sides forming the right angle is 4 cm more than twice the length of the other side. if the area of triangle is 120 cmsq. find its perimeter?
Found 2 solutions by CubeyThePenguin, ikleyn:
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The legs of the triangle are x and 2x+4 cm.

(x)(2x+4) = 2 * 120
2x^2 + 4x - 240 = 0
x^2 + 2x - 120 = 0
(x+12)(x - 10) = 0

The sides are 10 cm and 24 cm, so the perimeter is 10+24+26 = cm.
Answer by ikleyn(52810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Is the "other side" a leg, too ?

BY THE WAY

For right triangle, the standard naming of its sides forming the right angle is one short English word of three letters,

and this word is "leg".

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