{"id":19618,"date":"2026-05-21T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/find-hypotenuse-for-legs-8-and-15\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:35","slug":"find-hypotenuse-for-legs-8-and-15","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/find-hypotenuse-for-legs-8-and-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Find hypotenuse for legs 8 and 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A right triangle has legs 8 cm and 15 cm. What is the length of its hypotenuse?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>16<\/li>\n<li>23<\/li>\n<li>15<\/li>\n<li>17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2832],"subject":[2745],"education_level":[2494],"class_list":["post-19618","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-pythagorean-theorem-review","subject-trigonometry","education_level-grade-6"],"mcq_note":"Use the Pythagorean theorem: leg\u00b2 + leg\u00b2 = hypotenuse\u00b2. Here 8\u00b2 + 15\u00b2 = 64 + 225 = 289, so the hypotenuse is 17 cm.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"16"},{"right":"no","answer":"23"},{"right":"no","answer":"15"},{"right":"yes","answer":"17"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":2745,"title":"Trigonometry","slug":"trigonometry"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":2832,"title":"Pythagorean Theorem Review","slug":"pythagorean-theorem-review"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/19618","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=19618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}