Goals: Demonstrate an understanding of the Pythagorean Theorem Nov 20, 2018

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GMF10 Name ____________ ___________ Period ___
Pythagorean Theorem CW/AK

Verifying the Pythagorean Theorem

Note: Any time an answer has a decimal part, make sure to round
the answer to one place past the decimal (Ex 6.28 rounds to 6.3)
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Pythagorean Triples

• The Pythagorean Theorem can used to determine if a

triangle is a right triangle.

c2 = a2 + b2 or

Remember that c is the hypotenuse of the right triangle.

Use the Pythagorean Th. to determine if the following sets of

numbers are the sides of a right triangle (Pythagorean
Triples).

Example #1: 30, 40, 50

Example #2: 10, 12, 15

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Practice: Which of the following sets of numbers are the
sides of a right triangle? Show your work.
1) 8, 9, 13 2) 7, 24, 25

3) 9, 40, 41 4) 8, 15, 17

Given two sides of a right triangle find the missing side using
the Pythagorean Theorem.

Example #1:

c  

Example #2:

z  

Answers: Page 4 1) c=19.1 2) a=10.2 3) b=6.7 4) b=10.4 5) c=14.4 6) b=4.9

7) a=12.0 8) b=10.9
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Practice: Find the missing side. Show your work.

1) 2)

c   a  

3) 4)

w  
b  

5) 6) e  

t  

7) 8)
a  

b  

Answers Page 3 1) No 2) Yes 3) Yes 4) Yes Example #1 c=7.8 #2 c=10.8