The legs of a right triangle are 5 and 11. How do you find the exact value of the hypotenuse?
1 Answer
The exact value of the hypotenuse is
Explanation:
To solve this question you need to use the pythagorean theorem.
Which states
Where
Knowing this information we can plug in our values :)
We need to solve for
Take the square root of both sides.
Now we are left with:
Which is approximately equal to