The length of one leg of a right triangle is 20 ft in the length of the hypotenuse is 52 ft what is the length of the other leg

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Donavan Jefferson

2 December, 11:50

The length of one leg of a right triangle is 20 ft in the length of the hypotenuse is 52 ft what is the length of the other leg

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Trent Chung · Answer 1

The third leg is 2.6 ft

Andersen · Answer 2

A^2+b^2=c^2. c^2 is always the hypotenuse. and a and b are the legs. so a=20

. so a^2=400

so 400 + b^2 = 2704 (52^2). so2704-400 is 2304 and the square root of 2304 is 48