What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 8 and 15 units in length?
1 Answer
Apr 9, 2018
17 units.
Explanation:
let`s name the unknown quantity as
so according to the Pythagorean formula...
i..e..
which is
doing the square root on both the sides,
i.e.
hence the length of the hypotenuse is 17 units.