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How do you find the slant height for Pythagorean theorem?

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How do you find the slant height for Pythagorean theorem?-example-1
User Thiago Silva
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a^2 + b^2 = c^2
or
(leg 1)^2 + (leg 2)^2 = (hypotenuse leg)^2

basically when you add the squares of the two shorter legs of the triangle, you get the hypotenuse squared.
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