Word Problems
Pythagorean Theorem
Trig Ratios
Trig Vocabulary
Math Jokes
100
The floor of a storage unit is 15 meters long and 8 meters wide. What is the distance between two opposite corners of the floor?
17
100
The formula needed when a side length is missing from a right triangle.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
100
What sides of a triangle do you need when finding cosine?
Adjacent and hypotenuse
100
What trig functions do you use when you have an opposite side and the hypotenuse?
Sine
100
Why did the math book look so sad?
What is because it had so many problems?
200
Tyler just went down the slide at the playground. He walks 5.8 feet to get from the end of the slide back to the ladder. Then he climbs 7 feet to the top of the slide again. How long is the slide? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.
9.1
200
Find the hypotenuse when the sides of the triangle are 6 and 8.
10
200
24/7
200
The side opposite the right angle of a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
200
Why do you never argue with a 90 degree angle?
What is because it is always right?
300
Nathan takes a rectangular piece of fabric and makes a diagonal cut from one corner to the opposite corner. The cut he makes is 9 inches long and the width of the fabric is 8 inches. What is the fabric's length? If necessary, round to the nearest tenth.
4.1
300
Find the missing leg of a triangle when the hypotenuse is 20 and the first leg is 16.
12
300
What are trig ratios used to solve for? What are inverse trig ratios used to solve for?
Trig ratios are used to solve for a side in right triangles and inverse trig ratios are used to solve for an angle in right triangles.
300
What is the only type of triangle you can use trig ratios with?
What is a right triangle?
300
What do you call a man that spent all summer at the beach?
What is a tan-gent?
400
Ally's little brother loves to go down the big slide at the neighborhood playground. The slide is 17.1 feet long. The slide descends at an angle of 40° with the horizontal. How tall is the latter? Round to the nearest whole number.
11
400
Find the missing side of the triangle is the first leg is 24 and the hypotenuse is 32. Round to the nearest tenth.
21.2
400
What trig ratio do you need to use to solve for BC? What is the length of BC?
Cosine
BC = 1.71
400
What mnemonic device do we use to help us remember the trig ratios?
SOH CAH TOA
400
What do you call a tree made up of numbers?
What is Geome-tree?
500
Find the perimeter of the following triangle. Round to the nearest tenth.
12.3
500
You have triangle with side lengths of 7, 8, and 11. Is this triangle a right triangle? Show your work / explain your answer.
No, 49 + 64 does not equal 121
500
Solve for the measure of angle B.
angle B = 56.25 degrees
500
Use this trig function when you do not have the hypotenuse but you have the other two sides.
What is TANGENT?
500
Why doesn’t anybody talk to circles?
Because there’s no point.