| James Riley, Marge Eberts, Peggy Gisler - Education - 1995 - 154 pages
...triangle might look like the following. Point out to your child that the sum of the two leg squares of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse as seen above. This is called the Pythagorean Theorem. In our example, the squares of the legs are... | |
| Brian Burrell - Mathematics - 1998 - 386 pages
...basis of the study of right triangles. In words, it says: The sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse. In symbols: «- + b2 = c* .\ Pythagorean triple consists of three numbers... | |
| Sam Efromovich - Mathematics - 1999 - 423 pages
...the other sides arc called legs. The Pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Moreover, this is a property only of right triangles. In other words, to check that two sides are perpendicular... | |
| Jim Cooper - Architecture - 2000 - 286 pages
...a large area requires use of the mathematical law that says the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the diagonal, when the right triangle is made by dividing a rectangle with a line between opposite... | |
| W. Michael Kelley - Mathematics - 2002 - 342 pages
...Pythagorean theorem. Remember that little nugget from geometry? It said that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse: a2 + b2 = c2. Ever since I taught these three, I have named them the Mama, Papa, and Baby theorems... | |
| Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley - Mathematics - 2002 - 268 pages
...interested in precision. Figure 1 . The Pythagorean theorem says that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. each of the sides. The area of the square constructed on the side of length a is a2 (a2 means a times... | |
| Phyllis Barkas Goldman - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 192 pages
...important theorems in geometry is the Pythagorean Theorem, which says, "The sum of the squares of two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle (Every right triangle has a right angle.) Equal triangles have the... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Geometry - 2003 - 216 pages
...find some of them on the Internet. The Pythagorean Theorem states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse of that triangle. In the right triangle below, solve for the value of the x and find the lengths of... | |
| Phil DeMarois, Mercedes A. McGowen, Darlene Whitkanack - Mathematics - 2005 - 674 pages
...theorem from geometry called the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. When measuring lengths on a right triangle, this theorem is commonly used. If we take the square root... | |
| James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig - Religion - 2003 - 673 pages
...are properly basic (see chap. 5). For example, the proposition The sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse is self-evidently true. Similarly, the proposition expressed by the sentence "I feel pain" is incorrigibly... | |
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