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Question 139945: Find the missing length of the right triangle

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let's use Pythagoreans theorem to solve this problem

Pythagoreans theorem:

where a and b are the legs of the triangle and c is the hypotenuse

Plug in a=7, b=24. Now lets solve for c.

Square each individual term

Combine like terms

Take the square root of both sides

Simplify the square root

So our answer is

So the length of the unknown side is 25 units.
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