In right triangles one of the angles will always be 90 degrees.
So if you had a right triangle with one right angle, a number, and a number, they always have to add up to 90 degrees as well, because a triangle is always 180 degrees
so
- side a = 90
- side b = x
- side c = y
- x + y = 90
- x + y + 90 = 180