SOLUTION: one leg of a right triangle is 6cm shorter that the other leg, The length of the hypotenuse is 30cm. Find the length of the longer leg?
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Question 339135: one leg of a right triangle is 6cm shorter that the other leg, The length of the hypotenuse is 30cm. Find the length of the longer leg?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem,
Only positive solutions make sense in this problem,
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