Question

How do I find the length of the missing side for this right triangle?

Answer 1

Answer:

$c = 5$

Step-by-step explanation:

You use the Pythagorean theorem: $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$.

Since we have the value of $a = 3$ and $b = 4$..

Then we know that:

$a^2 + b^2 = 3^2 + 4^2 = 9 + 16 = 25 = c^2$

Since we know that $c^2$ is now, we take square root of that to get value of $c$.

$\sqrt{c^2}=\sqrt{25}\\\\c = 5$