Question

The squares attached to the two legs of a right triangle are 25 and 144.

1. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
2. What is the total perimeter of the triangle?

Answer 1

The hypotenuse is approximately 146.154 and the perimeter is 315.154.

Explanation:

The three sides of a triangle are a, b, and c. c is the hypotenuse. In order to get c, you add a squared plus b squared to get c squared. To get c, you find the square root of c squared.

To find the perimeter you have to add the sides together. So a + b + c= P.