Question

The longer leg of a right triangle is 3 inches longer than the shorter leg. The hypotenuse is 6 inches longer than the shorter leg. Find the side lengths of the triangle.

Answer 1

Answer:

9,12,15

Step-by-step explanation:

I just looked at the different pythagorean triples and saw which set has a difference of 6 between the largest and smallest and a difference of 3 between the first and second one.

Here are the first few pythagorean triples:

3,4,5

6,8,10

7,24,25

5,12,13

9,12,15 - This is our answer

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