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

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Answer:

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

Ajeet Varma answered May 20, 2022

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