What is a^2+15^2=17^2

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Suppose that 3% of all athletes are using the endurance-enhancing hormone epo (you should be able to simply compute the percentage of all athletes that are not using epo). for our purposes, a “positive” test result is one that indicates presence of epo in an athlete’s bloodstream. the probability of a positive result, given the presence of epo is .99. the probability of a negative result, when epo is not present, is .90. what is the probability that a randomly selected athlete tests positive for epo? 0.0297

Which must be true in order for the relationship △zyv ~ △xwv to be correct? zy ∥ wx ∠z ≅ ∠y and ∠w ≅ ∠x zv ≅ vy and wv ≅ vx ∠z ≅ ∠x and ∠w ≅ ∠y

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