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If the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 13 and the length of one leg is 12 find the length of the other leg

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Answer:

15 units

Explanation:

User Maskarih
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Answer:

15 units

Explanation:

For this question, we must use the pythagorean theorem to solve. This theorem can be used to find the missing length of right triangles.

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

Let's fill in the lengths that we know

a^2 + 12^2 = 13^2

Solve

a^2 + 144 = 169

a^2 = 25

a*a = 25

Find the square root of 25

5

The length of the second leg is 15 units

Hope this helped :)

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