SOLUTION: How do you figure the length of each side of a right triangle if you have 4x+5, 4x-5 and x
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Question 919894: How do you figure the length of each side of a right triangle if you have 4x+5, 4x-5 and x
Answer by MathLover1(20855) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let sides of a right triangle be ,, and where and are legs, and is hypotenuse (longest side)
by Pythagorean theorem:
so,if , and , then
solutions:
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then:
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