SOLUTION: A right triangle, has one side that equals to 120m. The total perimeter of the triangle is 300m. What is the measurement of the other side and the hypotneuse?
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Question 224251: A right triangle, has one side that equals to 120m. The total perimeter of the triangle is 300m. What is the measurement of the other side and the hypotneuse? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the measure of the unknown leg of the triangle. The total perimeter is 300, so the sum of the hypotenuse plus the unknown side must be 300 - 120 (the measure of the known side) = 180. So that means the hypotenuse can be represented as .
Now that we have representations for each of the sides, we can use Pythagoras:
