Vocabulary
These are often known as the two shorter sides of a right triangle.
What are legs?
This is the measure of the missing leg when one leg=3 and the hypotenuse=5.
What is 4?
This is the measure of the hypotenuse when leg=3 and the other leg=4.
What is 5?
These are often represented by the letters "a" and "b" when naming sides of a right triangle.
What is a leg?
This is the longest side of a right triangle.
What is a hypotenuse?
This is the measure of the missing leg when one leg=6 and the hypotenuse=10.
What is 8?
This is the measure of the hypotenuse one leg=3 and the other leg=5.
What is the square root of 34?
This is the letter in the pythagorean theorem that stands for the length of the hypotenuse.
What is "c?"
This is the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem
What is a2+b2=c2?
This is the measure of the missing leg when one leg=5 and the hypotenuse=13.
What is 12?
This is the measure of the hypotenuse one leg=6 and the other leg=7.
What is the square root of 85?
This is a term used when describing a number being multiplied by itself.
What is squared?
The man who is credited for creating a theorem to solve for the sides of right triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the measure of the missing leg when one leg=7 and the hypotenuse=25.
What is 24?
This is the measure of the hypotenuse one leg=10 and the other leg=9.
What is the square root of 181?
This is the side that always has the longest length in a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
This is the only type of triangle that the Pythagorean Theorem works on.
What is a right triangle?
This is the measure of the missing leg when one leg=21 and the hypotenuse=35.
What is 28?
This is the measure of the hypotenuse one leg=15 and the other leg=22.
What is the square root of 709?
This is the operation we use to cancel out an exponent of 2.
What is a square root?