Length of hypontenuse?

Question

What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle?

Answer 1

It is the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two sides

Answer 2

Recall Pythagorean Theorem, where we have a^2+b^2=c^2, where c is the hypotenuse. To find the length of the hypotenuse, simply rearrange this equation to solve for c and then solve.

c is being squared, so we need to square root both sides to solve for c. So, c=sqrt(a^2+b^2) where a and b are the lengths of the "legs" of the triangle and c is the hypotenuse.