Find the Missing Side of a Right Triangle

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 20 in.

• 68 in.

• 16 in.

• 80 in.

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 48 in.

• 52 in.

• 16 in.

• 24 in.

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• 48

• 108

• 83.6

• 72

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• 29.2

• 20

• 400

• 10

Using the Pythagorean theorem, find the missing side length in a right triangle if the lengths of the two legs are 9 units and 12 units.

• 15 units

• 21 units

• 18 units

• 24 units

Caroline measured the distance between three cities on a map that happened to form a right triangle. From Shoreview she traveled north 45 miles to Bloomington then she traveled diagonally 75 miles to Richfield. How far is Richfield to Shoreview? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.

• 60 miles

• 30 miles

• 120 miles

• 87.5 miles

The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 18cm. One of the legs is 11cm. Find the length of the other leg.

• 12.4 cm

• 21.1 cm

• 14.2 cm

• Not enough information

In a right triangle, if a = 8 and c = 17, what is the correct setup to find the value of b?

Using the Pythagorean theorem, find the missing side length in a right triangle if one leg measures 7 units and the hypotenuse measures 25 units.

• 24 units

• 18 units

Best buy is advertising a desktop monitor as 20 inches (diagonal length of the screen). If the screen is 12 inches high, what is the width of the screen? Round to the nearest tenth if necessary. (hint: we are looking for "a or b")

• 16 inches

• 8 inches

• 14 inches

• 18 inches