You are given the measurement of the two legs of a right angled triangle. What else do you need in order to draw a triangle?

Length of the third side

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Measure of one angle

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Either length of one side or measure of one angle

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I don't need anything else as I can easily construct the triangle from the given data.

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The correct option is D
I don't need anything else as I can easily construct the triangle from the given data.

If we are given the measurement of the two legs of a right angled triangle, then we can find the length of the hypotenuse using Pythagoras theorem.

Hence we do not need any other information.

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