Question

If a triangle has sides of 6 and 8, what must the hypotenuse be for the triangle to be a right triangle?

Answer 1

Use Pythagoras' Theorem.
Square root 6^2+8^2 to get the length of the hypotenuse.

Answer 2

Answer: 10 = x

Step-by-step explanation: To find the hypotenuse, notice that we have a right triangle so we can use the pythagorean theorem. The pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse. To find the hypotenuse, we can use the formula shown.

a² + b² = c²

Using the formula above, "a" and "b" are the legs of the right triangle and "c" is the hypotenuse. Since our legs have lengths of 6 and 8 and our hypotenuse has a length of "x", we can set up an equation to represent this.

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