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Question 747735: The longer leg of a right triangle is 2 cm more than twice the shorter leg. Find the measure of each leg of the triangle with the smallest possible area.
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Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We are given
The longer leg of a right triangle is 2 cm more than twice the shorter leg. Find the measure of each leg of the triangle with the smallest possible area.
Area = 1/2 * base * height
let x be the shorter leg and 2x+2 is the longer leg
then Area = 1/2*x*2(x+1) = x^2+x
Assuming values of x are whole numbers, then
if x = 1cm, then Area = 2cm^2 and the longer leg is 4cm
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