SOLUTION: if one leg of a right triangle is 12 and the other leg is 16. What is length of the hypotenuse of this right triangle?

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Question 411822: if one leg of a right triangle is 12 and the other leg is 16. What is length of the hypotenuse of this right triangle?
Answer by rfer(16322)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a^2+b^2=c^2
144+256=400
sqrt 400=20

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