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- 4. In the Old West, settlers made tents out of a piece of cloth thrown over a clothesline and then secured to the ground with stakes forming an isosceles triangle. How many feet long would the cloth have to be so that the opening of the tent was 12 feet high and 9 feet wide?
- 5. A number that when multiplied by itself, it’s equal to the original number.
- 7. What are the 3 integers called?
- 11. What kind of triangle do you use the Pythagorean Theorem for?
- 12. A worker needs to wash the windows of a house. In order to windows of the second story, his 13-ft ladder must reach 12 ft. up the side of the house. How many feet from the house should he place the base of the ladder?
- 13. The sail of a keelboat forms a right triangle. If the slant height of the sail is twenty radical three ft and its height is ten radical three ft, how many feet is its base length?
- 14. Name given to the two sides of the right triangle that are adjacent to the right angle.
- 15. The Pythagorean Theorem states that “a squared” plus “b squared” equals “c ______”
- 17. An artist cuts wood to make frames for her work. When she is done, she has scrap pieces that measure 10 in., 5 in., and 11 in. She connects these pieces at their endpoints. Classify the triangle they create by their angle.
- 18. If the legs of a right triangle are x, (x - 7) and its hypotenuse is 35, what is the value of x?
- 20. What is the side transverse of the right angle?
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- 1. If the legs of a right triangle are x, (x + 3) and its hypotenuse is three radical five, what is the value of x?
- 2. Three times the width of a certain rectangle exceeds twice its length by three inches, and four times its length is twelve more than its perimeter. How many inches is the length of the rectangle?
- 3. An expert in or student of mathematics; the maker of patterns.
- 6. The Pythagorean Theorem takes its name from the ancient Greek mathematician ________.
- 7. States that the square of the hypotenuse (the side transverse of the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
- 8. If the height of a triangle is five inches less than the length of its base, and if the area of the triangle is 52 square inches, how many inches is the length of the base?
- 9. A number that is the square of an integer.
- 10. A wood frame for pouring concrete has an interior perimeter of 14 meters. Its length is one meter greater than its width. The frame is to be braced with twelve-gauge steel cross-wires. Assuming an extra half-meter of wire is used at either end of a cross-wire for anchoring, in what length of meters of wire should be cut for each brace?
- 16. If the sum of the sides of a right triangle is 49 inches and the hypotenuse is 41 inches, what is the length of the shortest leg?
- 19. Bubba's dog house is shaped like a tent. The slanted sides are both 5 feet long and the bottom of the house is 6 feet across. What is the height of his dog house, in feet, at its tallest point?