How to find the missing length of a leg of a right triangle

The video tutorial explains how to identify the legs and hypotenuse of a triangle and apply the Pythagorean theorem to solve for an unknown side. It further demonstrates how to simplify the result into radical form without using a calculator, focusing on understanding squared numbers and simplifying square roots.

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