Question

The hypotenuse of a right angled isosceles triangle
is 14✓2cn, find the length of the perpendicular
sides,

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Answer 1

Answer:

The area of the triangle is 128 square units.

Step-by-step explanation:

Draw a right angled isosceles triangle with the equal sides labelled as a units long and the hypotenuse 16Rt2 units [where Rt represents the ‘root’ sign].

Using Pythagoras’ Theorem, (i.e., for a right angled triangle, the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides is equal to the hypotenuse squared) we can state that: a^2 + a^2 = (16Rt2)^2. We see that the left side of this equation simplifies to 2a^2 and the right hand side to 512.

So, 2a^2 = 512.

Now a deduction: The triangle is half the size of a square of side a units. This square’s area is a^2 square units. The triangle’s area is half this, i.e., (a^2)/2square units.

We see above that 2a^2 = 512, so halving both sides gives a^2 = 256, i.e., the square’s area is 256 square units.

As the triangle is half the size of the square, its area is half of 256 square units, i.e., 128 square units.

Answer 2

Answer:

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