{"id":18871,"date":"2026-05-19T22:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/missing-leg-of-right-triangle-17-and-8\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:26:41","slug":"missing-leg-of-right-triangle-17-and-8","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/missing-leg-of-right-triangle-17-and-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Leg of Right Triangle 17 and 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a right triangle, the hypotenuse is 17 cm and one leg is 8 cm. What is the other leg?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>25 cm<\/li>\n<li>9 cm<\/li>\n<li>225 cm<\/li>\n<li>15 cm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2774],"subject":[2744],"education_level":[1894],"class_list":["post-18871","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-pythagorean-theorem","subject-geometry","education_level-grade-8"],"mcq_note":"Use the Pythagorean theorem backward: missing leg\u00b2 = 17\u00b2 \u2212 8\u00b2 = 225. The missing leg is \u221a225 = 15 cm.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"25 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"9 cm"},{"right":"no","answer":"225 cm"},{"right":"yes","answer":"15 cm"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2744,"title":"Geometry","slug":"geometry"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2774,"title":"Pythagorean Theorem","slug":"pythagorean-theorem"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/18871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=18871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}