The leg and hypotenuse in a right triangle are 20 and 25 find another leg.
| December 19, 2020 | education
The leg and hypotenuse in a right triangle are 20 and 25 find another leg.
We can find the second leg by the Pythagorean theorem:
x ^ 2 = 25 ^ 2 – 20 ^ 2
x ^ 2 = (25 – 20) (25 + 20)
x ^ 2 = 225
x = 15
The second leg is 15 cm.
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