Question

In a right triangle, if the length of one leg is 4 and the length of the hypotenuse is 8, what is the length of other leg, in simplest radical form

Answer 1

Given the pythagorean theorem;
a^2 + b^2 = c^2...

The length of your last leg would be 6.928203230275509

Or "the square root of" 48.