Pythagorean Therorem Practice

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

What do you call the 2 sides of the triangle?

• legs

• arms

• hypotenuse

• hippotenuse

What do you call the longest side of the triangle?

• leg

• side

• hypotenuse

• hippotenuse

Where can you find the hypotenuse?

• a side that creates the right angle

• opposite the right angle

What letter(s) represent the "legs" of a triangle?

• a

• b

• a,b

• a,c

What letter(s) represent the hypotenuse?

• a

• b

• c

• a,b

Pythagorean Theorem only applies to what types of triangles?

• acute triangles

• obtuse triangles

• squares

• right triangles

Solve

• c= 7.2

• c= 27

• c= 4.5

• c= 5.4

Solve using Pythagorean Theorem

• c=13

• c=5.8

• c=19

• c=6.4

• c=3.5

• c=5.3

• c=106

• c=10.3