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The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 25 cm. The difference between the lengths of the other two sides of the triangle is 5 cm. Find the product of the lengths of these sides.

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Concept: Since the hypotenuse and the other two sides are known, we must use pythagoras' theorem to solve this problem.
Let one side of the given triangle be

and the other side becomes

.
From pythagoras theorem, (hypotenuse

and

But

(length of a side) cannot be negative.
Then

Other side is

The product of the length of sides

Hence, the correct answer is option 2

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