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Triangle, test OG

by isisalaska » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:35 pm
Perimeter of an isosceles right triangel is 16=16(square root) 2
why the hypotenuse is 16 an dnot 16(square root)2, I though is was a 1:1:square root2 triangle...
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by thankont » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:06 am
I think this is a tricky question but you can write 16sqrt(2) like
8sqrt(2)+8sqrt(2) so these are the right sides and hypot. is 16