A wire is bent into a right triangle with legs 5 cm and 12 cm. Total wire is

1. Find hypotenuse: 5^2 + 12^2 = 169, c = 13 cm. 2. Perimeter = 5 + 12 + 13. 3. = 30 cm. 4. So the wire is 30 cm long. _Source: Selina Concise Mathematics Class 9, Ch on Pythagoras Theorem (Mistral OCR'd PDF), section on perimeter problems_