A triangle has sides of 4cm and 5cm with the hypotenuse unknown. What is the length of the unknown side?

Pythagorus' theorem a^2 + b^2 = c^2
4^2 + 5^2 = c^216+25 = c^241 = c^2Root 41 or 6.403 = c

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