Vocabulary
The sides of the triangle next to the right angle
What are legs?
The other leg equals this when one leg=3 and the hypotenuse=5.
What is 4?
The hypotenuse equals this when one leg=3 and the other leg=4.
What is 5?
Letters "a" and "b" are used to represent this part of a right triangle.
What is the leg?
The shape used to help prove or understand the Pythagorean theorem.
What is a square?
The side of the triangle across from the right angle.
What is the Hypotenuse?
The other leg equals this when one leg=6 and the hypotenuse=10.
What is 8?
The hypotenuse equals this when one leg=3 and the other leg=5.
What is the square root of 34?
This letter in the formula stands for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
What is "c?"
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?
The only type of triangle you can use the Pythagorean theorem on.
What is a right triangle?
The other leg equals this when one leg=5 and the hypotenuse=13.
What is 12?
The hypotenuse equals this when one leg=6 and the other leg=7.
What is the square root of 85?
The action of multiplying a number by itself.
What is squaring a number?
Roofers need to know how long of a ladder they need. This is the length of the ladder if the roof is 16 feet high and the bottom of the ladder will be placed 12 feet from the building.
What is 20 feet?
The formula for the Pythagorean Theorem
What is a^2+b^2=c^2 ?
The other leg equals this when one leg=7 and the hypotenuse=25.
What is 24?
The hypotenuse equals this when one leg=10 and the other leg=9.
What is the square root of 181?
The side that always has the longest length in a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
The theorem we have been talking about is named after this philosopher.
Who is Pythagoras?
The formula for finding the distance between two points.
What is
d = sqrt((x2 - x1)^2 - (y2 - y1)^2)?
The other leg equals this when one leg=21 and the hypotenuse=35.
What is 28?
The hypotenuse equals this when one leg=15 and the other leg=22.
What is the square root of 709?
The operation used to "get rid" of something squared.
What is taking the square root?
This is the distance between the points (-3,4) and (6,-2).
What is the square root of 117?