Question 269882: a right triangle has a leg of 1.5 and a hypotenuse of 2.5 what is thee other leg of this right angle? Answer by drk(1908) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We use the Pythagorean theorem as
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
knowing a and c we get
then
subtracting we get
and a square root gives us
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