Finding Hypotenuse
In a right triangle, if one leg is 5 units long and the other leg is 12 units long, what is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer: 13 units
A right triangle has one leg measuring 10 meters and the hypotenuse measuring 26 meters. What is the length of the other leg?
Answer: 24 meters
Tom is building a wooden fence in his backyard. He wants to make sure that the corner of the fence forms a right angle. If one side of the fence is 5 feet long and the other side is 12 feet long, how long should the diagonal side be to form a right triangle?
The length of the diagonal side of the fence should be 13 feet to form a right triangle.
A right triangle has one leg measuring 8 centimeters and another measuring 6 centimeters. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
Answer: 10 centimeters.
If the length of one leg of a right triangle is 15 inches and the length of the hypotenuse is 17 inches, what the length of the other leg
Answer: 8 meters
A ladder is leaning against a wall. If the ladder is 10 feet long and the base of the ladder is 6 feet away from the wall, how far up the wall does the ladder reach?
8 feet
If the lengths of the legs of a right triangle are 6 inches and 9 inches, what is the length of the hypotenuse? Round to the nearest hundredth.
Answer: 10.82 inches
In a right triangle, if one leg measures 9 feet and the hypotenuse measures 15 feet, what is the length of the other leg
12 feet
A baseball diamond is a square with sides of 90 feet. How far is it from home plate to second base? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
127.28 feet
In a right triangle, the short side is 15 m. and the medium side is 17 m. Find the large side.
Answer: 22.67 meters.
A right triangle a is 8 centimeters and c is 10 centimeters. What is the length of b?
6 cm
A flagpole casts a shadow that is 15 feet long. If the distance from the top of the flag pole to the tip of the shadow is 33.6 feet, how long is the flagpole? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
30.7 feet