SOLUTION: If one side of a right triangle is 12 and its hypotenuse is 13, what is the length of the other side?

Question 109522: If one side of a right triangle is 12 and its hypotenuse is 13, what is the length of the other side?
Answer by BurningFlame_marc(77) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The pythagorean theorem states that , with c being the hypotenuse and a being 12 you can easily find the value of b using the pythagorean theorem. If we subtitute we will get something like this . In other words , if we subtract 144 from both sides we will get . To simplify these terms we need to get their respective square roots so or . So the length of the other side is 5.

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