A corner of a fenced yard forms a right angle. Can you place a 12 foot long board across the corner to form a right triangle for which the leg legnths are whole numbers

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Heather Castaneda

18 August, 10:45

A corner of a fenced yard forms a right angle. Can you place a 12 foot long board across the corner to form a right triangle for which the leg legnths are whole numbers

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Leo Patton · Answer 1

Depending if the two legs are triples, that being the 2 legs squared, then the square root of that. so A^2+B^2=C^2 and c being the length going across