Given a right triangle #triangle ABC# with #C=90^circ#, if a=8, c=17, how do you find b?
1 Answer
Apr 13, 2017
Explanation:
From Pythagoras, we have:
#a^2+b^2=c^2#
Hence:
#b = sqrt(c^2-a^2) = sqrt(17^2-8^2) = sqrt(289-64) = sqrt(225) = 15#
