Question

The leg of a right triangle is 4 units and the hypotenuse is 9 units. What is the length, in units, of the other leg of the triangle?

Answer 1

call the shorter leg you need to find a

then using pythagoras' theorem for a shorter leg its

\[a^2 = 9^2 - 4^2\]

just get the number answer and you're done

Answer 2

Ty @campbell_st