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.

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Let represent the shorter leg and then is the longer leg. Use Pythagoras:



Solve for , discard the negative root, then calculate .

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