Question 1179290: Hello! I will paste the problem below. I do not know what the question means by choosing two values that are greater than 10 that can be written in their exact form. What is exact form? I'm struggling to come up with these two values, any help would be appreciated.
"Choose a and b so that each is greater than 10 and so that they could be the legs of a 'special' right triangle written in their exact form."
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! you actualy need one of pythagorean triples
Pythagorean Triples if it satisfies the equation,
List of Primitive Pythagorean Triples:
( , ,  )
(, ,  )
( ,  ,  )
( ,  ,  )
( ,  , )
( ,  ,  )=> first one that you can use, or one of the following triples
(,  , )
(, , )
so, let  and  ( each is greater than  )
then plug it in
it confirms we have triples (, ,)
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