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What Pythagorean triplet has one leg as 8 and the other sides have the sum of 12?

 Nov 21, 2016
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None that I can find....   if the other two sides total 12, one has to be the hypotenuse and it must be greater than the leg 8   so 9 10 or 11  are all the values that would fit that bill   

9 the other side would be  (sqrt(81-64) ) =sqrt17

10                                               100-64 =  6

11                                                121-64 =sqrt57

 

so a right triangle CAN be 6 8 10      but 10+6 does not equal 12

 Nov 21, 2016

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