Question

The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 13 centimeters and the length of one of the legs is 12 centimeters.find the number of centimeters in the length of the second leg

Answer 1

we can use the Pythagorean theorem (
`a^(2) + b^(2) = c^(2)` ) , where a and b are the length of each of the two legs, and c is the length of the hypotenuse


`12^(2) + b^(2) = 13^(2)`

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the length is 5cm