SOLUTION: in triangle abc, measure of angle c is 90 degreese. if AC is 6 and BC is 8, find AB

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Question 665466: in triangle abc, measure of angle c is 90 degreese. if AC is 6 and BC is 8, find AB
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in triangle abc, measure of angle c is 90 degrees; so, you have right angle triangle and you need to use Pythagorean theorem to calculate missing side
if AC=6 and BC=8, then
AB%5E2=AC%5E2%2BBC%5E2
AB%5E2=6%5E2%2B8%5E2
AB%5E2=36%2B64
AB%5E2=100
AB=sqrt%28100%29
highlight%28AB=10%29