If c is the measure of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, how do you find each missing measure given a=x-47, b=x, c=x+2?
1 Answer
Explanation:
and we know that the pythagoras theorem is:
so if we fill that in:
from here we can see that:
this leads to:
The ABC Formula tells us that in order to calculate
with
when we fill that in we get:
or
therefore we know that
we fill that in for the sides:
and there's your answer!