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A carpenter is framing a wall and needs to ensure the corner forms a perfect right angle. They use a standard Pythagorean triple for quick verification. If they measure one leg from the corner to be 15 inches and the diagonal hypotenuse to be 17 inches, they can recall this standard triple to know the other leg must measure exactly ____ inches.
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A carpenter is framing a wall and needs to ensure the corner forms a perfect right angle. They use a standard Pythagorean triple for quick verification. If they measure one leg from the corner to be 15 inches and the diagonal hypotenuse to be 17 inches, they can recall this standard triple to know the other leg must measure exactly ____ inches.
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