The length of the hypotenuse on a right angled triangle is 12 cm. One of the shorter sides is 8 cm. What is the length of the remaining side? Give your answer to the nearest centimetre.

Read the excerpt from gilgamesh: a new english version.gilgamesh backed away. he said,"how dreadful humbaba's face has become! it is changing into a thousand nightmarefaces, more horrible than i can bear.i feel haunted. i am too afraid to go on." §enkidu answered, "why, dear friend,do you speak like a coward? what you just saidis unworthy of you. it grieves my heartwe must not hesitate or retreat."