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Line segments of 5”, 4” and 3” can form: (a) a right triangle (b) a non-right triangle (c) no triangle
a right triangle
Line segments of 9m, 16m and 30m can form: (a) a right triangle (b) a non-right triangle (c) no triangle
no triangle
Line segments of 8’, 15’ and 17’ can form: (a) a right triangle (b) a non-right triangle (c) no triangle
a right triangle
Line segments of .33”, .34” and .35” can form: (a) a right triangle (b) a non-right triangle (c) no triangle
a non-right triangle
Line segments of 121, 253 and 132 can form: (a) a right triangle (b) a non-right triangle (c) no triangle
no triangle
Name the missing side: a b ___
c
Find the missing side length. 13 18.4 ___
13
Find the missing side length. 8 6 ___
10
Find the missing side length. 5 12
13
8
G H What is the length of GH?
four units
J K What is the length of JK?
five units
LM equals the square root of ___? M L
26
QR equals the square root of ___? R Q
41
What is the perimeter of triangle ABC? A B C
12 units
A 10-foot ladder placed six feet from the wall reaches how far up the building?
8 feet
The base layer of a square wedding cake is 16” wide. A diagonal cut would be how long?
What is the diagonal distance across this 20’ x 30’ pool?
36.1 feet
4’6” 3’ length?
5.4 feet
Diagonal: 113.32 yards What is the width?
53.3 yards
Gophers and giraffes each have four of these, apes and right triangles have two, if you please.
legs
A diagonal divides inside a rectangle, forming this “big number” side of a right triangle.
hypotenuse
3-4-5 is a prime example. 5-12-13 is another sample. Natural numbers are all we’re seein’ … and each of them Pythagorean.
Pythagorean triples (or triplets)
Pythagoras would probably think it’s a drag, that there’s no right triangles in this country’s flag.
Greece
If the length is ‘one’ for the green and the blue, then the length for the red is the ______ ____ of ___. 1
square root of two