Question

The area of a right triangle is 270 m². The height of the right triangle is 15 m. What is the length of the hypotenuse of the right triangle? Enter your answer in the box.

Answer 1

The area of a triangle is calculated by the expression given as:

Area = bh/2

where b is the base and h is the height.

We calculate as follows:

270 = b (15) / 2
b = 36

hypotenuse = sqrt ( 15^2 + 36^2 ) = 39