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The length of the leg of right isosceles triangle is a. Find the length of the hypotenuse.

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A right isosceles triangle has two 45 degree angles. This means the side lengths are the same, so if one leg is a, the other leg is also a.

The hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle is the length os a leg multiplied by the square root of 2.

The hypotenuse would be: a√2

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