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How do you find another leg in Pythagorean theorem with the hypotenuse given?
The square of the hypotenuse minus the square of the leg you know will give you the square of the unknown leg.
If the legs of an isosceles right triangle are 6 units long What is the length of the hypotenuse?
Archimedes theorem says "the square of the hypotenuse is equal to sum of the squares of the other two sides" so in this example: hypotenuse2 = 62 + 62 = 72 hypotenuse = square root of 72 = 8.485 Alternately: Sin 45o = opposite/hypotenuse = 6/hypotenuse So hypotenuse = 6/sin 45 = 6/0.707 = 8.485
How do you determine the length of the 3rd leg in a right triangle if you have the length of the other two legs?
A right triangle only has two legs, the third side is called the hypotenuse . The square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. The square root of the difference of the square of the hypotenuse and the square of one leg is equal to the length of the other leg.
How do you use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse if you know the lengths of the other two sides?
Square the two sides then add them up and the square root of this sum gives the length of the hypotenuse
Find the hypotenuse of a right triangle if one leg is 8 and the other leg is 15?
The hypotenuse is the square root of (82 +152) = 17.
