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Find X. This is a 40°, 40°, 90° triangle.

Find X. This is a 40°, 40°, 90° triangle.-example-1
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In a 45°−45°−90° triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is √2 times the length of a leg. To see why this is so, note that by the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem , these values make the triangle a right triangle. Note that an isosceles right triangle must be a 45°−45°−90° triangle.

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