SOLUTION: if 20miles is one side of a right angle and the other is 1 mile what is the remaining sides length in miles
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Question 656220: if 20miles is one side of a right angle and the other is 1 mile what is the remaining sides length in miles
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use Pythagoras. 
So your missing side is either
or
Depending on whether the 20 mile side is the hypotenuse or the long leg of the right triangle.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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