Monday, February 6, 2012


Pythagorean Relationship - The relationship between the lengths of the 2 sides of a right triangle
3.
the question is if the triangle is a right triangle

its legs are 6cm and 8 cm the legs are commonly the 2 smaller number and the largest number in the triangle is the hypotenuse


so to find if its a right triangle is:

8cm= a
6cm= b
11cm= c


c2 = a2 + b2
c2 = 82 + 62
c2 = (8x8)+ (6x6)
c2 = 64cm2 +36 cm 2
c2 = 100

_ _
/c2 = /100 cm2

= 10 cm 2

c2 = 10 x 10
the answer is = NO its not a perfect square 10 = 11

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