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Given that the lengths of the legs of a right angled triangle are 3 m and 4 m, find the length of its hypotenuse.

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In a right angled triangle, the sum of squares of the lengths of legs is equal to square of its hypotenuse.
$h^{2} = 3^{2} + 4^{2} \Rightarrow h = 5 m$

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