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find the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle. leave your answer in simplest radical form. not drawn to scale. ​

find the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle. leave your answer in simplest-example-1
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Answer:

it need to =90

Explanation:

User Marilyn
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Two ways to solve this:
1) Notice that this is a 45-45-90 triangle, meaning the ratio of sides and hypotenuse is 1:1:sqrt(2)

Since the legs are 4, that would mean the hypotenuse would be 4*sqrt(2)

2) Pythagorean theorem: a^2 + b^2 = c^2

4^2 + 4^2 = 32
Sqrt(32) = 4*sqrt(2)
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