SOLUTION: how do you find the missing side length of the right triangle if a and b are the length of the legs and c is the length of the hypotenuse?

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Question 144748: how do you find the missing side length of the right triangle if a and b are the length of the legs and c is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer by vleith(2983) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the Pythagorean theorem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
a^2 + b^2 = c^2