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How do you find the length of the other two sides of a triangle when given a hypotenuse?
Unless you are given atleast 2 other angles, there is no way to find them out.
Where can you find the hypotenuse of a right triangle?
the hypotenuse is the side of the right triangle that is opposite of the 90 degree angle. To figure out the length of the hypotenuse you can use a2 + b2 = c2 (if you know the length of the other two sides) If you don't that you can probably use the sine or the cosine equation. (as long as you know at least one of the angles)
What's the equation to find the length of a hypotenuse of a triangle?
The basic equation for the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is A squared plus B squared equals C squared. Where A and B are the two non hypotenuse sides and C is the hypotenuse. To find other lengths and angles of a triangle various functions in the branch of mathematics known as trigonometry is used.
How do you find the two shorter sides of a triangle when all you know if the hypotenuse and nothing else?
If it has an hypotenuse then it is a right angle triangle and if you know its angles then use trigonometry to find its other two sides.
What is length of the equal sides of an isosceles triangle where the two equal angles are 20 degrees and the third side is 12?
Treat it as being two right angled triangles by halving the base and use the cosine ratio to find its hypotenuse (which will be one of the equal sides) cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse hypotenuse = adjacent/cosine hypotenuse = 6/cosine 20 degrees = 6.385066635 The length of the equal sides = 6.4 units correct to one decimal place.
