Question

The length of one leg of a right triangle is 8 and the length of the hypotenuse is 24. Find the length of the missing leg to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

8^2 + b^2 = 24^2
64 + b^2 = 576
-64 -64
b^2 = 512
Take the square root from b^2 and 512 =
b = 22.627
Answer 22.63 (rounded up)