Vocabulary
What is the Hypotenuse?
The longest side of a right triangle.
What is the length of the hypotenuse when one leg is 5 inches and the other is 7 inches when rounded?
8.6 inches long.
Joshua has an iPad that is 5 inches wide and 12 inches long. What is the hypotenuse of the iPad?
13 inches.
What is the first step of the Pythagorean Theorem?
Set up the equation.
What type of triangle is needed to find the Pythagorean Theorem?
A right triangle.
What are the legs of a right triangle?
The two lines that meet at a right angle.
What is the hypotenuse of a triangle that's leg has a length of 4 inches and another of 7 inches? Please round to the nearest whole number.
8 inches
Thomas has a phone that is 2 inches wide and 3 inches long what is the hypotenuse of the phone?
5 inches.
What is the second step in finding the hypotenuse?
Insert the values of A and B.
What is the smallest known Pythagorean Triple?
32 + 42 = 52.
What is the equation of the Pythagorean theorem?
A2 + B2 = C2
What is the length of the second leg of a triangle with a 5-inch leg and a 9-inch hypotenuse? Please round to the nearest tenth.
7.5 inches long.
Erik is building a chair and needs to find the leg of its seat, He knows that the hypotenuse is around 20 inches and that the other leg is 14 inches. What is the length of the other leg? Please round to the nearest whole number.
14 inches.
What is the third step in finding the hypotenuse?
Add the value of the legs.
What is a Pythagorean Triple?
A set of three positive integers that satisfies A2 + B2 = C2.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
An essential relationship among all three sides of a triangle.
What is the length of the first leg when the triangle has a length of 5 inches for the first leg, and the other is 6 inches?
5 inches.
Mikayla needs to find the length of the hypotenuse on her phone's screen. The phone's screen is 4.7 inches long and the width is 2.6 inches wide. What is the Hypotenuse? Please round to the nearest tenth.
5.4 inches long.
What is the third step in finding the value of a triangle's leg?
Subtract the Hypotenuse by the other leg.
What is the variable that represents the Hypotenuse?
The variable C.
What is a Square Root?
A number that creates a particular number when multiplied by its value.
What is equal to C? 332 + 562 = C2.
C = 65.
Pablo is making a house, he needs to find the exact measurement of a leg. He already knows that the hypotenuse is 14 inches long and the other leg is 12 inches long. What is the measurement of the other leg?
7.21110255 inches long.
What is the last step to finding the hypotenuse of a right triangle?
Find the square root.
What is the difference in finding the hypotenuse to finding the leg?
To find the hypotenuse you have to add both legs and to find a leg you have to subtract the hypotenuse by a leg.