SOLUTION: right triangle geometry. One leg of a right triangle is 7 m longer than the other. The length of the hypotenuse is 13 m. Find the length of the legs.

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Question 812293: right triangle geometry. One leg of a right triangle is 7 m longer than the other. The length of the hypotenuse is 13 m. Find the length of the legs.
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Use Pythagoras.



Expand the binomial, collect like terms, put the quadratic into standard form, and solve for .

Then again, you can think about the Pythagorean Triples you know of that have a 13 as the largest number.

John

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