Question

Find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 5 and √2

Answer 1

use pythagoras' theorem

\[x^2 = 5^2 + (\sqrt{2})^2\]

just evaluate for the answer

Answer 2

square both numbers
add the squares
take the square root of the sum of the squares

Answer 3

2 √3?

Answer 4

umm.... not quite... certainly root 3 but the number at the front is incorrect

Answer 5

3 √3?

Answer 6

thats it...