SOLUTION: If the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 10 feet long and 1 leg is six feet long what is the measure of the other leg?

SOLUTION: If the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 10 feet long and 1 leg is six feet long what is the measure of the other leg?

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Question 600342: If the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 10 feet long and 1 leg is six feet long what is the measure of the other leg?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the pythagorean theorem:

So the other leg is 8 feet long.
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