Triangle Vocabulary
Special Right Triangles
Pythagorean Theorem Hard
100

Provide a definition or a draw a picture for midsegment of a triangle. 

What is a line that connects two midpoints of a triangle?

100

The following triangle is 45-45-90. Solve for x in simplest radical form.  

What is 

2sqrt(7)

100

A certain television is advertised as a 68-inch TV (the diagonal length). If the height of the TV is 45 inches, how wide is the TV? Round to the nearest tenth of an inch.

What is 51 inches wide? 

200

Provide a definition or draw a picture for median of a triangle.

What is a line that connects a vertex and midpoint of a triangle.  

200

The following triangle is 45-45-90. Solve for x. Write the answer in simplest radical form. 



What is 

2sqrt(5)

200

Solve for x

sqrt(61)

300

Provide a definition of draw a picture for the centroid of a triangle. 

What is the intersection point of the medians of a triangle? 

300

Solve for x. Fully Simplify your answer. 

What is 

2sqrt(3)

300

A 50 foot ladder is set against the side of a house so that it reaches up 40 feet. If Aisha grabs the ladder at its base and pulls it 9 feet farther from the house, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach now? (The answer is not 31 ft.) Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.

What is 31.3 feet?