{"id":19619,"date":"2026-05-21T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/find-missing-leg-with-hypotenuse-17\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:01:42","slug":"find-missing-leg-with-hypotenuse-17","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/find-missing-leg-with-hypotenuse-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Find missing leg with hypotenuse 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A right triangle has hypotenuse 17 m and one leg 8 m. What is the other leg?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>25<\/li>\n<li>17<\/li>\n<li>15<\/li>\n<li>8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[2832],"subject":[2745],"education_level":[2495],"class_list":["post-19619","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-pythagorean-theorem-review","subject-trigonometry","education_level-grade-7"],"mcq_note":"Use hypotenuse\u00b2 \u2212 known leg\u00b2 to find the missing leg. 17\u00b2 \u2212 8\u00b2 = 289 \u2212 64 = 225, so the other leg is 15 m.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"25"},{"right":"no","answer":"17"},{"right":"yes","answer":"15"},{"right":"no","answer":"8"}],"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\/19619","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=19619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=19619"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=19619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}