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Find the sides of the right angled triangle?
The length of the Hyportenuse of a right angles triangle exceeds the base by 1cm and the twice the length of the altitude by 3 cm...
Find the length of each side of the triangle
Please explain how you got the answer too
1 Answer
- Rita the dogLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
12, 5, 13
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Edit: let c be hypotenuse then base is c-1 is base and if h is altitude then 2h+3 = c so h = (c-3)/2.
Since, by Pythagoras base^2 + altitude^2 = hypotenuse^2, you have to solve (c-1)^2 + (c-3)^2 / 4 = c^2. So solve it and find that c=13.
