Question

the area of a right angled triangle is 384cm the base is 32cm what is the measure of the longest side of the triangle steps

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Area of right angled triangle = 384 cm

Base of the triangle = 32cm

Area of a right angled triangle = 0.5 * base * height

384 = 0.5 * 32 * height

⇒Height = 384 / 0.5 *32 =16cm

Now we know that the longest side of a triangle is the hypotenuse, hence we can find it using pythogoras theorem

x2 = 16 * 16 + 32 * 32 = 256+1024

x = √1280