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Story Recap: "What's Your Angle Pythagoras?"
By Erica Melle
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Question 1
1.
Which of the following did Pythagoras NOT use his math discovery for?
Finding his way home
Fixing the length of the ladder
Calculating the distance to Crete
Finding the side lengths of the stone triangle
Question 2
2.
What is the formula Pythagoras created?
Question 3
3.
The Pythagorean Theorem can be used to find the lengths of__________ triangles
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acute
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obtuse
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right
Question 4
4.
What Pythagorean triple does the picture below illustrate?
4, 5, 6
3, 4, 5
2, 3, 4
1, 2, 3
Question 5
5.
What is a right triangle?
a triangle with all sides equal to 90 degrees
a triangle with all sides equal
a triangle with every angle equal to 90 degrees
a triangle with a 90 degree angle
Question 6
6.
Pythagoras was well known for______________________
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paintings
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math theorems
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literature
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poetry
Question 7
7.
In a right triangle, what is the side opposite of the right angle called?
legs
side a
side c
side b
Question 8
8.
The
a
and
b
in this equation:
refer to what part of a right triangle?
right angles
hypotenuse
legs
longest sides