Question

Ms. Green tells you that a right triangle has a hypotenuse of 12 and a leg of 5. She asks you to find the other leg of the triangle. What is your answer?

Answer 1

The leg would be the same wouldn’t it? because a triangle has 3 sides and 2 of the sides being exactly the same, legs-5 hypotenuse-13

Answer 2

let the other leg be x cm.

(5)^2+(x)^2=(12)

25+(x)^2=144

(x)^2=144-25

x=√119

x=10.9