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Consider a triangle with side lengths 5 and 13. What are the possibilities for the third side if the

triangle is right

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Answer:

find the squares of both numbers

5²= 25

13²=169

minus the squares

169-25=144

find the square root of the answer above

✓144=12

the possibility of the third side is 12

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