Question

If the hypotenuse of the triangle below is 8√2, what is the leg?

Answer 1

8

Explanation:

The side lengths of this special right triangle is as follows:

The side length that sees angle measure 90 (hypotenuse) is represented with x
`√(2)`

and

the side length that sees angle measures 45 (the legs) is represented with x

hypotenuse is given as 8
`√(2)` so we can easily find the value of x and legs in this case

x = 8