SOLUTION: 1 leg of a right triangle is 17 ft longer then the other leg. the hypotenuse is 25 ft. find the length of the 3 sides of the triangle?
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Question 691493: 1 leg of a right triangle is 17 ft longer then the other leg. the hypotenuse is 25 ft. find the length of the 3 sides of the triangle? Answer by mouk(232) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let the shorter side = then other side = .
Then by Pythagoras,
Multiplying out gives:
so or
as x represents a side of a triangle then so solution is
