SOLUTION: The area of a right triangle is 44 meters squared. Find the lenghts of its legs if one of the legs is 3 meters longer than the other.

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Question 400428: The area of a right triangle is 44 meters squared. Find the lenghts of its legs if one of the legs is 3 meters longer than the other.
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let be the measure of the shorter leg.



Two solutions:


A negative solution doesn't make sense in this problem.


The sides of the triangle are 11 and 14 meters.

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