Vocabulary
What are the sides of the triangle next to the right angle?
Legs
Letters "a" and "b" are used to represent which part of a right triangle?
leg
What is the ratio for sine?
opposite over hypotenuse
What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle and/or the largest side of the triangle?
Hypotenuse
When one leg=3 and the other leg=5 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 34
What is the ratio for cosine?
adjacent over hypotenuse
What is the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem?
What is a^2+b^2=c^2
When one leg=6 and the other leg=7 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 85?
What do we call multiplying a number by itself?
squaring a number
What is the ratio for tangent
opposite over adjacent
What is the name of the guy who is given credit for discovering the theorem we have been learning about?
Pythagoras
What is the ratio for tan(45)
1
What is the only type of triangle that works with the Pythagorean Theorem. (Or a triangle with an angle measuring 90 degrees)
Right Triangle
When one leg=21 and the hypotenuse=35 then the other leg=?
What is 28?
When one leg=15 and the other leg=22 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 709?
What is the ratio for sin(60)
root 3 / 2