Question

Find the length of the missing side of this right triangle.

Answer 1

like this?

Answer 2

is how i put it right now

Answer 3

So for this one you should use Pythagoreans theorem. Pythagorean's thrm is a proven rule that can be used to find a missing side length of a right triangle.

The rule is:
\[a^2 +b^2 = c^2\]

Answer 4

a and b represent the shorter sides of the right triangle and c represents the longer diagonal side, called the hypotenuse.

Answer 5

in your case:
a = ??
b= 11
c = 14

Answer 6

then we just plug those numbers into pythgoreans thrm and solve for c

Answer 7

Do you follow so far?

Answer 8

well i still dont get you

Answer 9

okay we are going to use this equation