Mathematics, 11.03.2021 20:40 SKYBLUE1015

One leg of a right triangle is one inch shorter than the other leg. If the hypotenuse is 5 inches, find the length of
the shorter leg. Please show your work so I can understand. It is supposed to be a quadratic equation by the way.

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