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Question 259341: Is there a right triangle whose shortest side is half its hypontenuse and whose remaining side is a whole number? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Since it's a right triangle, it observes the Pythagorean theorem.
This only works if to cancel out the sqrt(3) in the numerator and Z is a whole number greater than or equal to 2.
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