Caterpillars insect has 16 legs
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Lets work it out:- If the legs are 12 and 16 inches, then a rectangle of that size would be 192 square inches in area. As the the diagonal of the rectangle makes two equal triangles (of legs 12 and 16 inches), the area of one of these is half the area of the triangle - 192/2 = 96 square inches.
Using Pythagoras' theorem it is 20 yards in length.
The formula to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle is a2+b2=c2. c being the hypotenuse, a and b being the legs. So, 42+32=c2. 16+9=c2. 25=c2. c=5. The hypotenuse is 5.
c2 = a2 + b2, where c is the hypotenuse, and a and b are the other two sides. c2 = 162 + 302 c2 = 1156 √c2 = √1156 c = 34
The square of the two legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. a2+b2 = c2 where a and b are the legs and c being the hypotenuse