Question

What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle, whose legs have lengths of 12 meters and 35 meters?

Answer 1

leg^2 + leg^2 = hypotenuse^2

plug in the legs and solve for the hypotenuse

Answer 2

47?

Answer 3

pay attention to the exponents

^2 means squared

Answer 4

I keep coming up with huge numbers?

Answer 5

hypotenuse^2 = 12^2 + 35^2

solve for hypotenuse. notice that the formula gives hypotenuse^2 so you will have to take the square root of (12^2 + 35^2)

Answer 6

144+1225?

Answer 7

sorry I'm not good at the mathematical parts at all.

Answer 8

yup then add them together and take the square root of the result

Answer 9

37?

Answer 10

good so 37 m is your solution

Answer 11

thank you