SOLUTION: How would you find the length of two equal sides of an isosceles triangle, when it's hypotenuse is 15 cm long?
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Question 264601: How would you find the length of two equal sides of an isosceles triangle, when it's hypotenuse is 15 cm long?
Answer by JBarnum(2146) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
in a triangle where sides A and B are not the
Hypotenuse and C is the Hypotenuse, then the following formula is used:
since we know that A=B this is also true:
C=15 so
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