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Andre45 [30]
3 years ago
9

Pythagorean triples are given by the formulas x2 - y2, 2xy, and x2 + y2. Use the formulas for the Pythagorean triples to prove w

hy it is not possible for a right triangle to have legs with lengths of 16 and an odd number.
Mathematics
1 answer:
Arte-miy333 [17]3 years ago
4 0
Let k be an integer. Suppose there is a triangle with legs of length 16 and 2k+1. Then by the Pythagorean theorem, the length of the hypotenuse should be

\sqrt{16^2+(2k+1)^2}=\sqrt{4k^2+4k+257}

The formulas for Pythagorean triples say that if the legs are integers, then so must be the hypotenuse, because if x=16 and y=2k+1 are integers, then so are x^2-y^2, 2xy, and x^2+y^2.

However, 4k^2+4k+257 is not a perfect square trinomial, which means for any integer k, the length of the hypotenuse is not an integer, so such a triangle doesn't exist.
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