If you are examining a triangle with given measurements for one leg and the hypotenuse, how will you determine the measure of the unknown leg? Explain.
Accepted Solution
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The Pythagorean Theorem.If a and b are the lengths of the legs of a right triangle and c is the length of the hypotenuse, then the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse