SOLUTION: Can you have a right triangle where the lengths of the legs are whole numbers and the length of the hypotenuse is 23?
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Question 872535: Can you have a right triangle where the lengths of the legs are whole numbers and the length of the hypotenuse is 23?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Can you have a right triangle where the lengths of the legs are whole numbers and the length of the hypotenuse is 23?
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The 2 legs would have to be less than 23 in length.
See if you can find a & b such that
and a & b are integers.
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