A student is asked to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle. The length of one leg is 34 centimeters, and the l
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The length of BC is .
Solution:
Given ABC is a right triangle.
AC is the hypotenuse and BD is the altitude.
AB and BC are legs of the triangle ABC.
AC = 16 and DC = 5
<u>Leg rule of geometric mean theorem:</u>
Do cross multiplication.
Taking square root on both sides.
square and square roots get canceled, we get
The length of BC is .