Vocabulary
What are the sides of the triangle next to the right angle?
Legs
John leaves school to go home. He walks 6 blocks North and then 8 blocks west. How far is John from the school?
10 blocks
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.
5 meters
What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle? (*Side c)
Hypotenuse
When one leg=3 and the other leg=5 then the hypotenuse=?
5.83
The letter in the formula that stands for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
What is "c?"
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=?
9.22
Find the height of a tree if there is a ladder leaning against it that is 10 feet tall and it is 5 feet away from the base of the tree.
8.7 feet
Rachel bought a rug for her apartment. The rug is 11 feet long and 9 feet wide. Find the diagonal length of the rug.
14.2 feet
What is the formula to find c?
c=square root of a^2+b^2
When one leg=10 and the other leg=9 then the hypotenuse=?
13.45
The side that always has the longest length in a right triangle
What is the hypotenuse?
Is this a right triangle with sides 7, 9, and 11
NOT a 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=?
26.63
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.
26 inches
Roofers need to know how long of a ladder they need. The roof is 16 feet high and the bottom of the ladder will be placed 12 feet from the building. What is the length of the ladder?
20 feet