Hypotenuse of a right triangle is 17 cm and one leg is 8 cm. Other leg is

1. Use b^2 = c^2 - a^2 with c = 17 and a = 8. 2. b^2 = 289 - 64 = 225. 3. b = 15 cm. 4. So the other leg is 15 cm. _Source: Selina Concise Mathematics Class 9, Ch on Pythagoras Theorem (Mistral OCR'd PDF), section on numerical example_