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Find the length of the unknown side of the right triangle. In each case, a and b represent the lengths of the legs and c represents the length of the hypotenuse.$$a=14, c=50 ; \text { find } b$$
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This is known as the Pythagorean theorem and can be written as: \[c^2 = a^2 + b^2\] Show more…
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