Find the length of a hypotenuse in a 45-45-90 triangle with legs 8 cm

Answer 1

Kayla

Use your 45-45-90 special triangle with side lengths 1, 1, sqrt(2).

The given triangle has legs length 8 (given) which is 8 times the size of our special 1-1-sqrt(2) triangle.

Therefore the length of the hypotenuse is 8 times the length of the hypotenuse in our special triangle

= 8 sqrt(2)

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