SOLUTION: The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is centimeters and the length of one side is centimeters. What is the exact length of the third side?
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Question 307914: The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is centimeters and the length of one side is centimeters. What is the exact length of the third side?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean thereoem since it's a right triangle.
where you know the length of one leg and the hypotenuse .
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