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Find a right triangle that has legs with your irrational Lengths and a hypotenuse with a rational Length

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gg easy


the legs of a triangle are related as
a^2+b^2=c^2 wehre a, b, and c are the legs and the hypotonuse of a triangle respectively


let's find some stuff

one easy way is to find a rational value for c find values of a and b

lets pick c=5


a^2+b^2=5^2


a^2+b^2=25

now split up 25 into 2 things that don't have rational square roots

if we say
a^2=19 and
b^2=6 then we get


a=√(19) and
b=√(6) (which are both irrational)

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