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What is the name of the two sides that make up a right triangle

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The answer is legs
The side away from the right angle is the hypotenuse
If there is a specified angle you are looking at
The "hypotenuse" of that angle would be the opposite, and the one that is not the actual hypotenuse would be the adjacent
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