Vocabulary
What is the formula for Pythagorean Theorem?
What is a2+b2 = c2
What is the square root of 49?
What is 7
Is this triangle (6, 8, 10) right-angled, why/why not?
yes triad
Find the hypotenuse, c, when a = 3 and b = 4
What is 5
John leaves school to go home. He walks 6 blocks North and then 8 blocks west. How far is John from the school? *Write your answer in the context of the problem
What is 10 blocks
What is the square root of 63 to one decimal place
What is 7.9
Find a if b = 5 and c = 10?
What is 8.7
Find the height of a tree if there is a ladder leaning against it that is 10m tall and it is 5m away from the base of the tree. *Write your answer in the context of the problem
What is 8.7m
Either of the sides that touch the right triangle are called?
What is a short side
What is the square root of 581 to two decimal places?
What is 24.10
Joshua won a laptop in a school raffle. The laptop screen measures 10 inches in height and 24 inches in width. Find the diagonal length of the laptop screen. *Write your answer in the context of the problem
What is 26 inches
What is a triad?
Group of three whole positive numbers that obey Pythag
What is the square root of 400?
What is 20
Is this triangle (15, 36, 39) right-angled why why not?
Yes as c2 = a2 + b2
A ladder 13 m long is placed on the ground in such a way that it touches the top of a vertical wall 12 m high. Find the distance of the foot of the ladder from the bottom of the wall. *Write your answer in the context of the problem
What is 5m
How do you prove a triangle is right-angled?
Use Pythag and if both sides are equal then right-angled triangle.
what is the square root of "5 squared plus twelve squared"?
13
A triangle with sides 1.5, 2.5, and 4.0
What is NOT a right triangle
If the hypotenuse is twice "a" and "a" is 7 what is b
What is 12.12
Rachel bought a rug for her apartment. The rug is 11 feet long and 9 feet wide. Find the diagonal length of the rug. *Write your answer in the context of the problem
What is 14.2 feet