SOLUTION: Given the special right triangle, please find the short leg and the hypotenuse if the long leg is 5√3. and measurement of angle c is 60.

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Question 381632: Given the special right triangle, please find the short leg and the hypotenuse if the long leg is 5√3. and measurement of angle c is 60.

Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi,         

 30-60-90 right triangle ...long leg {{5*sqrt(3)}}}

  short leg is 5 and the hypotenuse is 10



CHECKING our answer by applying the Pythagorean Theorem

 a^2 + b ^2 = c^2 , where c is the hypotenuse

 25*3 + 25 = 100