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Hello I need help with question 8! I will give you a great rating! Please help, I’m not sure how to do this. Also this is not a quiz this is practice

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Notice that the given right triangle is also an isosceles triangle: both acute angles must have a measure of 45º for the internal angles of the triangle to add up to 180º.

Then, the lengths of x and y are the same, since they are opposite to congruent angles.

Additionally, in a right isosceles triangle, the length of the hypotenuse is always √2 times the length of a leg:

Since the length of the hypotenuse of the given triangle is 19√2, then the length of the legs x and y must be 19.

Therefore, the answers are:

x=19

y=19

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