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the length of the hypotenuse of a right Triangle is 10 and the length of one leg is 8 what is the length of the other leg

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Hello!

Using the Pythagoras Theorem we can solve this equation. a
a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2), where a and b represent legs and c represents the hypotenuse.

Again YOU CANNOT SQUARE ROOT EVERYTHING:


3^(2) + 4^(2) = 5^(2)
9+16=25

BUT:

3+4 \\eq 7!!

To continue:


8^(2) + b^(2) = 10^(2)
64+ [tex] b^{2} [\tex] = 100
[tex] b^{2} [\tex] = 36
b = 6

The other leg's length is 6.
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