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  • 15-06-2017
  • Mathematics
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The length of one leg of a right triangle is 20 ft in the length of the hypotenuse is 52 ft what is the length of the other leg

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hopkinsbailey hopkinsbailey
  • 15-06-2017
The third leg is 2.6 ft
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kellybean482
kellybean482 kellybean482
  • 15-06-2017
a^2+b^2=c^2. c^2 is always the hypotenuse. and a and b are the legs. so a=20
. so a^2=400


so 400 +b^2 = 2704(52^2). so2704-400 is 2304 and the square root of 2304 is 48
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