 | John Charles Stone - Mathematics - 1919 - 232 pages
...120 ft. by 300 ft.? 4. THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM A right triangle is a triangle of which one angle is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides are called the legs. By drawing a right triangle whose legs are 3 in.... | |
 | Joseph Antonius Nyberg - 1924 - 378 pages
...I) 2 = 17 - 14 x THE PYTHAGOREAN EQUATION 233. A right triangle is one in which one of the angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called arms. The symbol for the word triangle is A ; thus A.ABC... | |
 | John Charles Stone - Arithmetic - 1926 - 356 pages
...one 120 ft. by 300 ft. ? THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM A right triangle is a triangle of which one angle is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides are called the legs. By drawing a right triangle whose legs are 3 in.... | |
 | John Charles Stone - Mathematics - 1926 - 344 pages
...the seventh year's work. You have learned that a right triangle is a triangle of which one angle is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides are called the legs. By drawing a right triangle whose legs are 3 in.... | |
 | Martin M. Zuckerman - Mathematics - 1983 - 376 pages
...PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM A right triangle is a triangle in which one of the angles is 90°. This angle is called a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The ancient Greeks discovered that the sides of lengths a, b, and cofa right triangle are... | |
 | Martin M. Zuckerman - 1984 - 308 pages
...PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM A right triangle is a triangle in which one of the angles is 90°. This angle is called a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The ancient Greeks discovered that the sides of lengths a, b, and с of a right triangle... | |
 | Martin M. Zuckerman - Mathematics - 1998 - 406 pages
...THEOREM Example 7 A right triangle is a triangle in which one of the angles is 90°. This angle is called a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The ancient Greeks discovered that the sides of lengths a, b, and с of a right triangle... | |
 | David Rayner - Mathematics - 2000 - 354 pages
...Trigonometry Trigonometry is used to calculate sides and angles in triangles. The triangle must have a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse (H). It is the longest side. The side opposite the marked angle is called the opposite (O).... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 2002 - 924 pages
...angles are equal. An acute triangle is one with three acute angles. A right triangle is one having a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The other two sides may be called legs. A plane triangle can have only one right angle.... | |
 | Gary R. Jensen - Education - 2003 - 402 pages
...to use a protractor. Definition 1.64. A right triangle is a triangle for which one of its angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. A triangle is isosceles if two of its sides are equal. In figures, the equal sides arc... | |
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A right-angled triangle is one which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypothenuse. 
