Question

A right angled triangle is isolated. If the square of the hypotenuse is 50m,what is the length of equal sides?

Answer 1

Let x be the length of the equal sides and h be the length of the hypotenuse.

Using Pythagorean Theorem,

h2=x2+x2h2=x2+x2

50=2x250=2x2

25=x225=x2

5m=x