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Is it possible for a triangle to have more than one 90 degree angle?

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These are the three vocab words that you must be familiar with because they
will be used throughout the whole lecture.

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Pythagoras Born about 569 BC in Samos, Ionia Died around 475 BC
Son of a merchant. Greek mathematician. Described as the first pure
mathematician. Introduced to mathematics by philosophers of his time.
Interested in the principles, concepts, and proofs of mathematics. The first
mathematician to prove what is now known as The Pythagorean Theorem

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NOTE that this theorem will only work with right triangles; that is triangles
with a 90 degree angle

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This is a visual of how Pythagoras proves that the hypotenuse is essentially the
longest side of a right triangle. As you can see the area of the hypotenuse side
is much larger then the legs. The other remaining legs are identical in size

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Probably the most important slide of this presentation. This is a break down of
the steps required to solve a right triangle. In general all these steps will follow
but may require additonl steps from problem to problem.

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Remember to square root the 25. Many students may simply add A and B and
assume the answer is 25. You must remember to square root the 25 to get 5 as
your hypotenuse. This makes sense because the hypotenuse should be the
biggest side and it is since 5 is greater than the 3 and the 4.

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Use the last slide as a guide to complete the measurement of the hypotenuse.
1 = 17 2= 25 3= 41 4=26 5=10

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Now we are giving the hypotenuse and one leg length. It’s the same steps as
finding the hypotenuse but in order to find the leg you must isolate the “A” in
the pythagorean equation.

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The easiest way to solve this problems is to draw your triangle out first. Label
the sides given and the one you are looking for. Use the Pythagorean theorem
appropriately.
1=6 2=8 3=24 4=25 5=10.6 6=8.7 7=10 8=17.9

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This is a right triangle because when you square all sides and you add the two
legs together it actually equals the hypotenuse

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If you square both legs and add them, the sum must be more than the
hypotenuse to be considered an acute triangle.

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If you square both legs and add them, the sum must be less than the
hypotenuse to be considered an acute triangle.

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1. Right 2. right 3. obtuse 4. right 5. acute 6. obtuse 7. acute 8. right

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We will now see how the Pythagorean Theorem works in the real world

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Use the picture on the right to get a better idea of how a tv is measured. Then
input the lengths given at the appropriate sides.

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The best thing to do here is to draw the image and place the length
appropriately. Then us Pythagorean theorem as previously done
(16)2 + (10)2 =
256 + 100 = C2
√356 = C
18 inches approx. = C

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For the sake of this mini assignment make sure to include an image to the
word problem. Don’t include the lengths in the image itself

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