Find the length of the missing leg of a right triangle given a leg of length 15 and a hypotenuse of length 17. Leave your answer in simplest radical form.

Using Pythagorean's Theorem of a^2+b^2=c^2, with a and b being two legs and c being the hypotenuse.

You can find that the leg (15) squared is 225. The hypotenuse (17) squared is 289.

289-225=64

The square root of 64 is 8

So the missing leg of the triangle has a length of 8 units.