If you draw squares on the two shorter sides… Pythagoras’ theorem only works on right – angled triangles … and find their area. Area A Area B
Area C Area A Area A + Area B = Area C The sum of their areas equals the area of the square on the longest side! Area B
Find the area of the smaller squares Find the length of x. Find the area of the smaller squares x 9cm2 3cm 4cm 16cm2
What will the length x be? 9cm2 Find the length of x. 25cm2 x What will the length x be? 9cm2 3cm add to find the area of the large square. x = 25 = 5cm 4cm 16cm2
Find the length of x. x x2 = 82 + 62 x2 = 64 + 36 x2 = 100 6cm x2 = 64 + 36 8cm x2 = 100 x = 100 = 10
Find the length of x. x x2 = 92 + 72 x2 = 81 + 49 x2 = 130 7cm x2 = 81 + 49 9cm x2 = 130 x = 130 = 11.4
This time we need to find the area of one of the smaller squares … Find the length of x. This time we need to find the area of one of the smaller squares … … so we need to subtract! 12cm x2 = 122 - 82 x x2 = 144 - 64 8cm x2 = 80 x = 80 = 8.9