SOLUTION: The flower garden has a shape of a right triangle. 20 ft of the perennial border forms the hypotenuse of the triangle, and one leg is 4 ft longer than the other leg. Find the lengt
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: The flower garden has a shape of a right triangle. 20 ft of the perennial border forms the hypotenuse of the triangle, and one leg is 4 ft longer than the other leg. Find the lengths of the legs.
x=one side, x+4 is the second side.
(x+16)(x-12)=0
x = -16 or 12. Negative lengths are discarded, so x = 12. The second side is x+4, or 16.
What are the lengths of the legs?
This question is from textbook introductory and intermediate algebra
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