How do you show work for Pythagorean triples

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Haylee Hayes

11 April, 23:11

How do you show work for Pythagorean triples

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Maldonado · Answer 1

The square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two sides. This is usually expressed as a^2+b^2 = c^ 2. Integer triples which satisfy this equation are Pythagorean triples. The most well known examples are (3,4,5) and (5,12,13).