SOLUTION: Find the leg of a right triangle if one leg is 8 and the hypotenuse is 12

Question 85459: Find the leg of a right triangle if one leg is 8 and the hypotenuse is 12
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since we have a triangle with legs of 8 , x(our unknown side) and a hypotenuse of 12, we can use Pythagoreans theorem to find the unknown side.
Pythagoreans theorem

Plug in a=8 and c=12 and lets solve for b
Square each individual term

Subtract 64 from both sides

Combine like terms

Take the square root of both sides

Simplify

So our answer is

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