SOLUTION: The shorter leg of a triangle is 15 meters .The hypotenus is 5 meters longer than the longer leg.Find the length of the longer leg ?

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Question 237790: The shorter leg of a triangle is 15 meters .The hypotenus is 5 meters longer than the longer leg.Find the length of the longer leg ?
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Let represent the longer leg. Then the hypotenuse must be .

Mr. Pythagoras says:



(Because )

Simplify and solve for


John