Given that 3cm and 4cm are the shorter sides of a right-angled triangle, find the length of the hypotenuse.
When given 2 known sides of a right angled triangle, we can use Pythagoras' Theorem to find the last unknown side. The formula follows as below:A2 = B2 + C2Where A represents the longest side of the triangle (the hyoptenuse) and B & C are the other 2 sides (does not matter which of the 2 sides are assigned to B or C). Substituting in 3cm and 4cm into B and C and then taking the sqaure root will give us our value for A which is 5 cm.A = Sqrt(9 + 16) = 5cm
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