Question

a right triangle is drawn inside a circle the length of two sides one is 8cm and the other is 5 cm what is the length of the hypotenuse, rounded to the nearest hundredth?

Answer 1

We have a right triangle and we know the measurements for two sides. On triangles like that we can apply Pythagora's theorem, where:

`\text{hypothenuse}^2=8^2+5^2`
`\begin{gathered} \text{hypothenuse}^2=64+25 \\ \text{hypothenuse}^2=89 \\ \text{hypothenuse}=\sqrt[]{89=9.434\text{ cm}} \end{gathered}`

The length of the hypothenuse is approximately 9.43 cm