SOLUTION: Consider a right triangle. The length of the long side is 23 longer than the short side. The length of the hypotenuse is 2 longer than the long side. What is the length of the long

Question 316427: Consider a right triangle. The length of the long side is 23 longer than the short side. The length of the hypotenuse is 2 longer than the long side. What is the length of the long side?
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Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem,

Only the positive solution makes sense in this case,

Short:
Long:
Hypotenuse:
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