In a right triangle, the two shorter sides are called legs.
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They are just "sides." They usually do not have given names, unless you have a right triangle, in which the two shorter sides are called legs and the longest side (side opposite the right angle) is called the hypotenuse.
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Leg!
The short sides of a right triangle are the legs.
In a right triangle, the two shorter sides are called legs.
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They are just "sides." They usually do not have given names, unless you have a right triangle, in which the two shorter sides are called legs and the longest side (side opposite the right angle) is called the hypotenuse.
5 cm
Leg!
It states that in a right triangle, the longest side of the triangle squared is equal to the sum of the remaining two sides squared. The formula used for this is a²+b²=c². C is always equal to the longest side of the triangle, while A and B are equal to the two shorter sides of the triangle.
Using Pythagoras' theorem the longest side which is the hypotenuse works out as 10cm
They are the two shorter sides which meet to form the right angle.
To create a triangle, the sum of the two shorter sides must be greater than the third side. If the longest side is one of the two given sides, then the missing side must be greater than the difference between the two shorter sides. If the missing side is the longest side then the missing side must be less than the sum of the two shorter sides.
The hypotenuse of any right triangle is longer than either one of the other two sides of the same right triangle. But it's shorter than their sum.
An example is Pythagoras's Theorem: that the sum of the squares of the two shorter side lengths of a triangle with a right-angle is equal to the square of the length of the side opposite the right angle.