SOLUTION: Find the value of the variable. If the answer is not an integer, leave it in simplest radical form. The image is of a right triangle with hypotenuse length x. Altitude length is

SOLUTION: Find the value of the variable. If the answer is not an integer, leave it in simplest radical form. The image is of a right triangle with hypotenuse length x. Altitude length is

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Question 1066430: Find the value of the variable. If the answer is not an integer, leave it in simplest radical form.
The image is of a right triangle with hypotenuse length x. Altitude length is marked as 8 and base length as 15. Altitude is at the left hand side to base.

Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use Pythagoras.

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