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Vocabulary
What is missing?
Solving for a missing side
Pieces of the Formula
Miscellanous
100

What are the sides of the triangle that create the right angle?

What are Legs?

100

John is building a wall for a kitchen remodel. He knows the space for the wall is 121 ft2. How long does his diagonal brace need to be?

What is hypotenuse?

100
When one leg=3 and the other leg=4 then the hypotenuse=?
What is 5
100

Letters "a" and "b" are used to represent which part of a right triangle?

leg

100

The shape we can use to help prove or understand the Pythagorean theorem

What is square?

200

What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle?

What is the Hypotenuse?

200

Karen is planting a tree. She uses a guide wire to stabilize the tree. The diagonal wire is 10ft long and the tree is 6ft tall. How far from the tree is the stabilizing wire?

What is a leg?

200
When one leg=3 and the other leg=5 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 34
200
The letter in the formula that stands for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
What is "c?"
200
The only type of triangle you can use the pythagorean theorem on.
What is a right triangle.
300

What is the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem?

What is a2+b2=c2 ?

300

Three people are sitting on a bus. Ashley is seated 4 meters behind Deion and 3 meters directly to the left of Becky? How far is Deion from Becky?

What is hypotenuse?

300
When one leg=6 and the other leg=7 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 85?
300

What do we call multiplying a number by itself?

squaring a number

300
The spelling of the theorem we have been talking about.
What is p-y-t-h-a-g-o-r-e-a-n.
400

What is the name of the guy who is given credit for discovering the theorem we have been learning about?

Who is Pythagoras?

400

Marco leans a ladder against his house to clean the gutters. If the ladder is 8 ft long and the house is 11 ft tall, how far from the house did he place the ladder?

What is a leg?

400
When one leg=10 and the other leg=9 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 181?
400
The side that always has the longest length in a right triangle
What is the hypotenuse?
400

Construction workers are building a ramp. The ramp is 9 feet high and 12 feet long. This is the length of the slanted part of the ramp.

What is 15 feet?

500

What is the only type of triangle that works with the Pythagorean Theorem.

What is a Right Triangle?

500

When one leg=21 and the hypotenuse=35 then the other leg=?

What is 28?

500
When one leg=15 and the other leg=22 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 709?
500

The operation that is the opposite of squaring a number. The last step in every Pythagorean Theorem problem. 

What is square root?

500

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