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The two legs of a right triangle are equal and the square of the hypotenuse is 50. Find the length of each leg.

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Let the length of each leg of the given triangle be x units.Using the Pythagoras theorem, we get: x2+x2=(Hypotenuse)2x2+x2=502x2=50x2=25x=5Hence, we can say that the length of each leg is 5 units.

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