Question

The lengths of the legs of a right triangle are 8 and 15. What is the length of the hypotenuse?

Answer 1

The hypotenuse is 17.

Explanation:

You use the hypotenuse formula. It's square root of A^2 + B^2.

`\sqrt{{8}^(2) + {15}^(2) } =`

`√(64 + 225) =`

`√(289) = 17`