Question

Can somebody teach my how to find the length of the third side of a triangle?

Answer 1

Explanation:

formula 0.5 x base x height

Answer 2

Remember the formula a^2+b^2=c^2

Explanation:

This can be used on right triangles. Now your a and b represent the legs of a triangle and the c represents the hypotenuse(the longest side). If you had a leg that was 2 inches and a second leg that was 4 inches you would plug it into the equation so...

2^2+4^2=c^2

Now evaluate

2^2=4

4^4=16

so

4+16=c

20=c

Now take the square root of 20 which is approximately 4.47 or leave it as square root of 20

If you had one leg and a hypotenuse then plug in and solve like any other equation.

Hope this helps!