Quilt squares are cut on the diagonal to form triangular quilt pieces. The hypotenuse of the resulting triangles is 14 inches long. What is the side length of each piece?

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anonymous · Answer

What do you know about the sides of a square?
How can the pythagorean formula help you here?

anonymous · Answer

nothing i am failing this class like really bad and its not funny i am suppose to be in gem but i am doing treg and like i am not doing good i have a 51 in this class now since i got my new teacher i had a good grad befoer my old teacher left so idk i am so mad and dont know what to do that is how bad i am in all this

anonymous · Answer

Think back a few years. What makes a square a square and not a rectangle?

anonymous · Answer

a square makes up two triangle because if you draw a square and draw a diagonal line from the right to the left or the left to the right in the middle you will see how two triangles make a square

anonymous · Answer

Two triangles can make a rectangle as well. A square has all equal length sides.

anonymous · Answer

okay

anonymous · Answer

So, given that the square has the same length sides, what do you know about the legs of each triangle?

anonymous · Answer

Either of the two shorter sides of a right triangle. These two sides together form the right angle in the right triangle.