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Vocabulary & Distance
Solving for legs
Solving for Hypotenuse
Using Pythagorean Language
Miscellanous
100

What are the sides of the triangle next to the right angle?

Legs

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

The parts of the triangle "touching" the right angle.

What are legs?

100

The following are side lengths on a right triangle: 10, 6, 8. Which could be the hypotenuse? 

What is 10?

200

What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle? (*Side c)

Hypotenuse

200
When one leg=6 and the hypotenuse=10 then the other leg=?
What is 8?
200

Find the distance between the points (-5, 4) and (-2, 9).

What is the square root of 34

200
Are the following side lengths from a right triangle? 5, 12, 17

What is no?

200
The only type of triangle you can use the pythagorean theorem on.
What is a right triangle.
300

What is the side length of a square with an area of 49 in2?

What is 7 in?

300
When one leg=5 and the hypotenuse=13 then the other leg=?
What is 12?
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

Are these side lengths from a right triangle? 5, 12, 13

What is yes?

400

Find the distance between the (-3, 2) and (4, -3). *use graph*

What is the square root of 74 or approximately 8.6?

400

When one leg=7 and the hypotenuse=25 then the other leg=?

What is 24?

400

A gopher has dug holes in opposite corners of a rectangular yard. One length of the yard is 15 meters and the distance between the gopher's holes is 17 meters. How wide is the yard?

What is 8?

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

Find the distance between (4, -1) and (1, 3) 

What is 5?   

500

A slide has a length of 13 feet. If the bottom of the slide is 5 feet from the base of the vertical ladder, how tall is the vertical ladder?

What is 12 feet?

500
When one leg=15 and the other leg=22 then the hypotenuse=?
What is the square root of 709?
500
The operation we used to "get rid" of something squared.
What is taking the 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