SOLUTION: How do I find the height of an right triangle, where not angle degrees are provided, only the following side dimensions?: The base=x, and the hyptouse 3x

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Question 766762: How do I find the height of an
right triangle, where not angle degrees are provided, only the following side dimensions?: The base=x, and the hyptouse 3x
Answer by fcabanski(1391)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The Pythagorean theorem: where a and b are the legs, and c is the hypotenuse.


To find a leg given the other leg and the hypotenuse:


In this right triangle call side a = x and c (hypotenuse) = 3x



So

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