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Find the hypotenuse of a right triangle that has one side of 7 cm and another
one of 3 cm.

User Bertvan
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To find it, use the formula a^2 plus b^2=c^2. So 7 times 7 is 49, 3 times 3 is 9. 49 plus 9 is 58, take the square root of your answer which would be 7.6 because that is the square root of 58 rounded to the nearest tenth.
User Sandeep Mukherjee
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The hypotenuse is the square root of 58.
a^2+b^2=c^2
7^2+3^2=c^2
49+9=c^2
58=c^2
c= square root of 58
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