Question

One leg of a right triangle is 16. The hypotenuse is 27. What is the measure of the missing leg of the right triangle?

Answer 1

`x=√(23)`

Explanation:

So the eqaution for the hypotonuse is
`a^(2)+b^(2) =c^(2)`

Therefore...

`√(16) +\sqrt{x^(2) }=√(27)\\ 4+x =√(27) \\x=√(23)`