A right triangle has a side of 1 m and a hypotenuse of 27 m. What is the value of the other side?

1 Answer
Jul 27, 2016

Other side is 33

Explanation:

According to Pythagoras theorem, in a right angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of other two sides.

Here as hypotenuse is 27 m., its square is 27×27=4×7=28. As one side is 1 m. and its square is 1

the square of the other side must be 281=27.

Hence other side is 27=3×3×3=33