Problema Solution
A garden has the shape of a right triangle with one leg 6 meters longer than the other. The hypotenuse is 6 meters less than twice the length of the shorter leg. The length of the shorter leg is?
Answer provided by our tutors
The shorter leg is X, the longer one is (X+6), the hypotenuse is (2X-6)
So the equation is
X^2 + (X+6)^2 = (2X-6)^2
We solve it
X = 18
So the shorter leg is 18 meters