SOLUTION: A landscaper is designing a flower garden in the shape of a right triangle. She wants 10 ft of a perennial border to form the hypotenuse of the triangle, and one leg is to be 2 ft.
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Question 890280: A landscaper is designing a flower garden in the shape of a right triangle. She wants 10 ft of a perennial border to form the hypotenuse of the triangle, and one leg is to be 2 ft. longer than the other. Find the lengths of the legs.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the shorter leg and then 
is the longer leg. Use Pythagoras:
^2\ =\ 10^2)
Solve for , discard the negative root, then calculate .
John
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