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Question 470342: 6. A shelf is an isosceles right triangle, and the longest side is 38 centimeters. What is the length of each of the other two sides? Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source):
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For an isosceles right triangle with side lengths a, the hypotenuse has length ,
if the longest side (the hypotenuse ) is , then