No any leg of a right angle triangle is smaller than the length of its hypotenuse
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The area of a right triangle is dependent on the length of leg A and leg B. The formula for this is A= leg a multiplied by leg b then divided by 2.
Area of a right triangle = (1/2 the length of one leg) x (length of the other leg)
What is the length of a leg of an isosceles right triangle if it is area is 72 square inches?
Each leg works out as 9.998489886 to comply with Pythagoras' theorem for a right angle triangle.
The hypotenuse is always the longest of the three sides of a right triangle.