Question

1 If one leg of a right triangle is 3 meters, and the hypotenuse is 5 meters, what is the length of the

missing leg?

Answer 1

i'm gonna assume that "leg" refers to length of the triangle, so comment if you think it is wrong.

Now when it comes to a right-angled triangle, the pythagoras theorem formula can be used.

Using algebra,

let the missing length be X.

By pythagoras theorem,

5² = 3² + X²

5² - 3² = X²

X² = 5² - 3²

X = sq root ( 5² - 3² )

= 4 m

Therefore, the length of the missing leg is 4m .