Question

What is the measure of y?327ZlyХy = [ ? ]Give your answer in simplest form.Enter

Answer 1

First, lets remenber a property of right triangles:

If we have the right triangle in this form:

The following is true:

`h^2=m* n`

In our question, Y=h , m=27 and n=3, with that we can solve our problem:

`Y^2=27*3\rightarrow Y^2=81\rightarrow Y=9`

So, Y=9