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What is the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle shown?
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What is the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle shown? Please help!-example-1
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Answer:

4 root 27 or 16.4924....

Explanation:

16^2+4^2=c^2

User Megri
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Answer:

c=16.4924225024

Explanation:

Use Pythagorean Theorem:

a^2+b^2=c^2

The legs of the triangle are a and b, in this case 16 and 4. The hypotenuse is c, or the unknown in this problem.

16^2+4^2=c^2

256+16=c^2

272=c^2

Take the square root of both sides

c=16.4924225024

Hope this helps!

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