SOLUTION: If a triange has a base of 15 feet and a height of 13 feet, how many feet is the slope?

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Question 224848: If a triange has a base of 15 feet and a height of 13 feet, how many feet is the slope?
Answer by LtAurora(115) About Me  (Show Source):
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Use:

The and are our sides, or the given base and height in this case. The is our missing side's distance.
Plugging in our values:

Simplifying:


Take the sqaure root of 394 to give us: