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The hypotenuse is the longest side in a right-angled triangle.
You can calculate this in different ways depending on what pieces of information you have.
If you have the lengths of the two shorter sides, you can use Pythagoras.
Or if you have a side and an angle then you may be required to use Trigonometry.
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How do you calculate the length of the opposite and adjacent sides in a right angle triangle if you know the length of the hypotenuse and the angle between the adjacent and hypotenuse?
the sides can be found out by using trignometry.. sines and cosines.. sine of an agle is perpendicular/hypotenuse cosine of an angle is base/hypotenuse..
How do you use sine in math?
The sine function is used in trigonometric calculations when attempting to find missing side lengths of a right triangle. The sine of an angle in a triangle is equal to the length of the side opposite of that angle divided by the length of the hypotenuse of the triangle. Using this fact you can calculate the length of the hypotenuse if you know an angle measure and the length of one leg of the triangle. You can also calculate the length of a leg of the triangle if you know an angle measure and the length of the hypotenuse.
How do you calculate the length of s hypotenuse using Pythagoras theorem?
In a right triangle, square the lengths of the other two sides and add them together. The length of the hypotenuse will be the positive square root of that number.
How do you calculate the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle?
An isosceles right triangle will always have its shorter sides of the same length, and the hypotenuse will always be this length times sin(45o) or times the square root of 0.5.
If the shortest leg of a 30-60-90 triangle has length 12 what is the length of the hypotenuse?
Hypotenuse = 24
