SOLUTION: given a right angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 70 and the sides have a ratio of 16 to 9, what are the lengths of the sides, please show the solution steps, so I can do the steps
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Question 935304: given a right angled triangle, the hypotenuse is 70 and the sides have a ratio of 16 to 9, what are the lengths of the sides, please show the solution steps, so I can do the steps for other hypotenuse lengths. Thank you.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the sides and , where
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By the pythagorean theorem:
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Multiply both sides by
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By substitution:
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check answers:
Error due to rounding off, I think
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