Question

Hi someone please help me I'm not sure how to do thissss

Answer 1

Answer: (√10)*a

Step-by-step explanation:

In a triangle rectangle, we have 3 sides, in this case, the shorter base, a, the longer base, b and the hypotenuse h.

And the hypotenuse can be found with the Pythagorean's theorem.

a^2 + b^2 = h^2

now, we know that b = 3a, then we can replace it in the above equation:

a^2 + (3*a)^2 = h^2

a^2 + 9*a^2 = h^2

10*a^2 = h^2

now we can apply the square root to both sides and get:

√(10*a^2) = √h^2

(√10)*a = h

Then we have found the length of the hypotenuse in terms of the shorter side a.