What is the missing side length?

A right triangle is shown. One leg is labeled twenty-four meters and the second leg is labeled ten meters. The hypotenuse is labeled with a question mark.

twenty-six meters

thirty-six meters

forty meters

square root of one hundred twenty-four meters

Question

What is the missing side length?

A right triangle is shown. One leg is labeled twenty-four meters and the second leg is labeled ten meters. The hypotenuse is labeled with a question mark.

twenty-six meters

thirty-six meters

forty meters

square root of one hundred twenty-four meters

campbell_st · Answer

just use pythagoras's theorem 

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$$?^2 = 24^2 + 10^2$$

hope this helps

wolf1728 · Answer

hyp² = 24² + 10²
hyp² = 676
hypotenuse = sq root (676)
Just one more step to go.