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The legs of a right triangle are 4 cm and x cm. The hypotenuse is (2x-1) cm. What is x? I know the answer to this question is 3 but what I can't figure out is how that solution was achieved. I tried setting up the equation like $\"+4x%5E2%2Bx%5E2=%282x-1%29%5E2\"$ but got the wrong answer.
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\n" ); document.write( "It's $\"4%5E2+%2B+x%5E2+=+%282x-1%29%5E2\"$
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