SOLUTION: what is the length of a leg of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of the square root of 50?

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Question 550250: what is the length of a leg of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of the square root of 50?
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what is the length of a leg of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of the square root of 50?
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Use Pythagoras
a%5E2+%2B+b%5E2+=+c%5E2
Since a = b,
a%5E2+%2B+a%5E2+=+50
You can finish it.