Vocabulary
Solving for legs
Solving for Hypotenuse
Pieces of the Formula
Find the side
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

Free 100 plus steal 100 for another team

gain 200 pick a team to lose 100

100

7.2

200

give 200 of your points to another team

give 200 to another team

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

is this a right triangle? 

yes

82+152= 172

64+225=289

289= 289 

yes

300

What is the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem?

What is a^2+b^2=c^2

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

double points

600 points

300

What do we call multiplying a number by itself?

squaring a number

300

300 points for everyone on your team with blue notes here in class

300 for each blue notes

400

The only type of triangle you can use the pythagorean theorem on.

What is a right triangle.

400

Free points

400!

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. (Or a triangle with an angle measuring 90 degrees)

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 we used to "get rid" of something squared.
What is taking the square root?
500

give 500 to another team

500 to another gteam