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The Flower garden has the shape of a right triangle. 20 ft of a perennial border forms the hypotenuse of the triangle, and one leg is 4 ft longer than other leg. Find the lengths of the legs.
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Let the length of the hypotenuse = ft
Let the length of the shorter side = ft
Let the length of the longer side = ft
From the Pythagorean theorem,
ft
ft
Complete the square by taking 1/2 of the coefficient of
b, square it, add it to both sides. First add to
both sides
Take the square root of both sides (there is a (-) square root also,
but I can ignore it)
The lengths of the legs are 12 ft and 16 ft
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