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Pythag Theorem

The document provides word problems involving the Pythagorean theorem to solve for missing side lengths of right triangles. It gives the Pythagorean theorem equation and asks students to draw pictures of right triangles to help solve 6 word problems, rounding answers to the nearest tenth if needed. The problems involve finding diagonal brace lengths, distances between holes in a yard, heights of volleyball nets, widths of gardens, and field widths.

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Pythag Theorem

The document provides word problems involving the Pythagorean theorem to solve for missing side lengths of right triangles. It gives the Pythagorean theorem equation and asks students to draw pictures of right triangles to help solve 6 word problems, rounding answers to the nearest tenth if needed. The problems involve finding diagonal brace lengths, distances between holes in a yard, heights of volleyball nets, widths of gardens, and field widths.

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Name ____________________________________________________________ Date ______________________________

Pythagorean Theorem:
WORD PROBLEMS
The Pythagorean theorem relates the side lengths of a right triangle.
You can show the Pythagorean theorem using the following equation, c
where a and b represent the legs and c represents the hypotenuse:
a

a2 + b2 = c2
b

Try it! Use the Pythagorean theorem to solve each word problem. Draw a picture of a right triangle to help you! Round
your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.

1. A
 contractor is building a new room onto the back of 2. Paola’s dog, Rex, dug holes in opposite corners of
Darnell’s house. The contractor adds a diagonal brace to Paola’s rectangular yard. If the yard is 11 meters long and
the frame of one of the walls. The frame is 15 feet long 4 meters wide, what is the distance between the holes?
and 8 feet tall. How long is the diagonal brace?

3. A
 ika is setting up a volleyball net on the beach. There 4. Feng is designing the layout for his rectangular garden.
is a support cable from the top of one end of the net He plans to include a path that connects the opposite
to the ground 6 feet away from the net. If the cable is corners of the garden. The path will be 12 feet long,
10 feet long, how high off of the ground is the net? and the garden will be 9 feet long. How wide will the
garden be?

5. X
 avier wants to buy a new TV. Before he goes to the 6. At marching band practice, Jada marches from one
store, he measures his TV and notes that it is 56 inches corner of her school’s field to the opposite corner,
long and 33 inches wide. When Xavier gets to the store, covering 150 yards. If the field is 120 yards long, how
he realizes that TVs are measured by their diagonal wide is it?
length! What is the diagonal length of his current TV?

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