The length of each leg of an isosceles right triangle is 13 cm. What is the length of the hypotenuse?

Question

Answer 1

Since we are given a right triangle we can utilize the Pythagorean theorem a² + b² = c²

Where a and b represent the length of the legs of the right triangle and c the the length of the hypotenuse.

In this case a= 13 b=13 and we are looking for c.

By substitution we get the following equation, where we must solve for the variable c.

a² + b² = c²

(13)² + (13)² = c²

Answer 2

Have you tried using the Pythagorean Theorem?