SOLUTION: The lengths of the legs of a right triangle are 12 cm and 16 cm. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Question 294353: The lengths of the legs of a right triangle are 12 cm and 16 cm. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
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Pythagorean theorem
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem for right triangles: where c is the length of the hypotenuse, and b & a are the lenghs of the two legs.
Take the square root of both sides (Discard the negative solution).
The length of the hypotenuse is 20 cm.
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