Pythagorean Theorum?

Question

Hey. I was wondering how to solve A squared + B squared = a certain number?
The question is: find the length of the side of a square whos' area is 300 cm squared? How would I solve that? THANKS!

Answer 1

The Pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle are equal to that of the hypotenuse (the long side opposite the right angle). A squared + B squared = C squared. This will not work for a square. If you had the values of a and b, then the equation would be simple. You could add the squared values of a and b to get c squared and even after that take the square root of the c squared value to get the value of c. Iits a little confusing to hear it but the equation itself is easy. The formula for a square is width x height.
Maybe this website can help you
thttp://www.mathopenref.com/squarearea.html

Good luck

Answer 2

a squared + b squared = c squared
c squared is always the biggest side.

However, the pythagorean theorum can only be used on triangles.

For a square: base x height = area

Remember, for squares the base and height have to be the same number. Therefore, you want to find two of the same numbers that multiply to get 300, which would be 17.32.

Answer 3

a^2+b^2=c^2

Since in a square, the lengths of all four side are equal, the length of one side would be the square root of the area since the area is the length times the width. So for your problem you need to find out the square root of 300 and you have the length of one side. On my calculator I got 17.32050808

Answer 4

a^2+b^2 =c^2 or Leg squared + other leg squared= hypotnuse squared

but that question dosen't have a right triangle so it dosen't matter
it has a square the area for a square is x^2 or side squared so what you have is x^2=300 radical both sides and you have x= radical 300 or 10 radical 3
so one side = 10 radical 3

Answer 5

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTheorem.html



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