Tommy is trying to find the length of one of the sides of the sail on the sailboat. One of the legs are 10 feet long and the hyp

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otenuse is 13 feet long. What is the length of the other leg?

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-Dominant- [34] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-01T22:57:13+03:00

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Since it is a right triangle, we are use the <u>Pythagoras' Theorem </u>to find the missing leg.

a² + b² = c²

10² + b² = 13²

b² = 13² - 10²

b² = 169 - 100

b² = 69

b = 8.31 feet (nearest hundredth)

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Answer: The other leg is 8.31 feet