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Question 535881: My question is this: the lengths of a right triangle are 24 and 10, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Pythagoras theorem says that the square of the length of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides (called the "legs" of the right triangle). So, if the length of the hypotenuse is
It turns out, calculating, that
and taking the square root
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