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Find the length of 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

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If your hypotenuse is h, then the base is h - 1 and the height is (h - 3)/2. Use the Pythagorean theorem to find h:

    hyp^2 = base^2 + alt^2

    h^2 = (h - 1)^2 + [(h - 3)/2]2

    h^2 = h^2 - 2h + 1 + (h^2 - 6h + 9)/4

    4h^2 = 4h^2 - 8h + 4 + h^2 - 6h + 9

    0 = h^2 - 14h + 13

    0 = (h - 13)(h - 1)

    h = 13, 1

    h can't be 1, since the base would be 0 if that were the case. Thus, the hypotenuse is 13, the base is 12, and the altitude is 5.

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