How do you find the missing side of a triangle if one long side is 12 and the base is 5?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-19T10:23:56

You can't. But if you're told these are the legs of a right triangle, we recognize the triple #5^2+12^2=13^2# so the hypotenuse is #13.#