Pythagorean Theorem
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100

The longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle.

What is the hypotenuse?

100

What ratio you use when you are given the opposite and hypotenuse.

What is sine?

100

What do you use to find missing angle measures?

Inverse sin/cos/tan

100

What mode does your calculator have to be in when doing trigonometry problems?

What is degree mode
200

What is the pythagorean theorem and what does each part represent?

a2+b2=c2, where a and b are the legs and c is the hypotenuse.

200

What ratio you use when you are given the two legs of a right triangle.

What is tangent.

200

What is the only ratio that does not use the hypotenuse?

tangent

200

When using inverse sin/cos/tan on your calculator don't forget to________.

Close your parentheses. 

300
The hypotenuse in a triangle with legs 12 and 16.
What is 20?
300

Find the measure of angle A in triangle ABC using the following information: angle B=90, AC=15.2, AB=10

What is 48.86 degrees?

300

Calculate side AB


What is 8.40
300

A mathematically inclined squirrel sits atop a 14-foot tall tree. He spies a nut on the ground some distance away. After careful measurements, he determines the nut is 74º from the base of his tree. How far away is the nut from the base of the tree?

What is 48.824 ft

400

A leg of a triangle with a hypotenuse of 24.3 and another leg of 8.

What is 22.9 

400

The measure of the hypotenuse AC of triangle ABC given, measure of angle A=30 degrees and BC=12cm.


What is 24cm?

400
Find measure of angle C in triangle ABC when the hypotenuse AC is 20cm and CB=11.

What is 56.63 degrees?

400

A prince has arrived to rescue a princess standing in a tower balcony 15 meters up across a moat 12 meters wide. He knew the princess was high up and there was a moat, so he brought the longest ladder in the kingdom, a 20-meter monster. Is the ladder tall enough?

Yes

500

The hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of 9.4in and 6.7in.

What is 11.5in 

500

Find side AB in triangle ABC, given measure of angle C= 43 degrees and the hypotensuse AC= 23cm. 

What is 15.69cm?

500


What is 32.98

500

Devon is standing 100 feet from the Eiffel Tower and sees a bird land on the top of the tower (she has really good eyes!).   

If the angle of elevation from Devon to the top of the Eiffel Tower is close to 84.6°, how tall is the tower?

What is 1058 feet tall