Weekly Poll Results - What is the square root of the sum of the squares of the l

What is the square root of the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle equal to?
Wha... ?	27.6% (174)
The squared hypotenuse.	25.1% (158)
I like pie more than I like mathematics.	22.8% (144)
Twice the third side.	14.9% (94)
Other (leave comment)	5.8% (37)
I failed geometry!	3.4% (22)
Total: 629
Start: 02-09-2009 19:21
Last: 02-17-2009 12:45

. . . it should be the length of the hypotenuse, lol

Honestly, I like pie more. :P ~Cheese

Triangles dont have legs

that would be option other, the length of the hypotenuse. Way to go morons :p

O_o What was the question again?

voted Other - The length of my Rifle!

pie is in maths

Other I'll torture the person who made this poll to get the answer.

Never seen a triangle walking on the street. :confused:

enough with the stupid polls :|

how about you put the correct answer in? (as said in #1)

Well, if the question made sense.... I think the mod's failed geometry too.

i agree with #3 triangles dont have legs

1. Let's assume that "legs" are verticies of the right ANGLED triangle. 2. The question is based either on the formula of Pythagoras or just simple maths. Interpretation 1: The number of verticies of any triangle is obviously 3. If we square that we will get an answer of 9. The square root of 9 is ofcourse 3. As you may have noticed, the square and square root cancel each other out. Interpretation 2: a^2+b^2=c^2 (^2 is the sign of a square) Here the "legs" are described as the lenghts of sides which are as follows: a Hypotenuse, an Opposite and an Adjacent where the Hypotenuse is the longest one, the Opposite is the opposite side to the Hypotenuse and the Adjacent is the one which is basically not the opposite :) The answer depends on the values of each sides. If we take the common example of 3:4:5 (Adjacent = 3; Opposite = 4; Hypotenuse = 5) we can work out the answer by using the formula stated above. If we substitute the letters with our values it gives us the equation of: 3^2+4^2=5^2. Now using simple maths calculations we get this answer: 3x3+4x4=5x5, Which when multiplied appropriately gives us: 9+16=25 --> 25=25 (Remember. these values are not the answer yet as they are still "squared") If we square root our answer we will get the value of 5 which is the value of the lenght of the Hypotenuse we used at the start. So the answer is: "The square root of the sum of the squares of the sides of a right angled triangle is equal to the lenght of the Hypotenuse of the same triangle." Maks ;)

I usually just answer OVER 9000 to all math questions. It's worked for me so far.

The funny thing is.. I just got an F from geometry today. So I guess my answer is 'I failed geometry... really.'

pythagorean theorem states that the answer would be the hypotenuse of the triangle.

:eek: General Math is hard enough!

It would be the squared hypotenuse :).

No it would be the hypotenuse, because it already says the square root of the sum of the squares. squreroot of (A^2 + B^2) + hypotenuse. It does not equal the square of it. A^2 + B^2 = hypotenuse (C) squared. And since the question is the first one, the answer is the hypotenuse, not the square of it.

This would be useful if I was an artillery gunner.

If I would have a "?" for everything I don't know it would be too much to post in one comment............

Did the poll submitter fail geometry?

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091 45648?

Ok... any combination of these numbers 123456789. :D

Nah, the real answer is the Square of the Hypotenuse I think.

helps if you provide the correct answer... its the hypotenuse

O.o pie didn't get the most votes, where have all the good old pie lovers gone?!?! Also the answer is just the hypotnuse (having the squared root of the hypotnuse would give the cubed root of the hypotnuse as an answer, since it askes for the rooted answer in the question anyway), which is probably why "wha...?" got the most votes xD lol But pie should win!!!!

the hypotenuse of course!!!

Oh yes I see :).

as a high schooler i have to vote the wha? as i have no idea what it means:confused::confused:

Just look at comment #20 and hopefully you'll see the answer.