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A right triangle has a hypotenuse length of 32 meters. It has one leg with a length of 18 meters. What is the length of the other leg?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Use the Pythagorean theorem: 18^2 + b^2 = 32^2.
So b^2 = 32^2 − 18^2 = 1024 − 324 = 700, hence b = √700 = 10√7 ≈ 26.46 meters.