Question 192673: How do you find the lengths of the sides of a right triangle if you only know the length of one side?
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! How do you find the lengths of the sides of a right triangle if you only know the length of one side?
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In general, you can't.
To find all 6 elements of a triangle, you have to know 3.
3 sides, 2 sides and 1 angle, etc.
Knowing only the 3 angles is not sufficient, either, since there can be similar triangles with the same 3 angles. 1 side must be given.
In the triangle above, having 1 side and 1 angle (90 degs) is insufficient data.
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