Pythagoras Theorem

Which of the following are not the lengths of sides of a right-angled triangles?

In a computer catalog, a computer monitor is listed as being 27 cm. This distance is the diagonal distance across the screen. If the screen measures 15 cm in height, what is the actual width of the screen to the nearest inch?

If a man is 6 ft. tall and he casts a shadow that is 3 ft. long, what is the distance from the top of the man's head to the end of his shadow.?

What is the length of the monitor diagonally in two decimal places ?

Find the value of the missing side...

A ladder 20 m long rests against a vertical wall. If the foot of the ladder is 12 m away from the base of the wall, the height of the point on the wall where the top of the ladder reaches is :

If a man goes 15 m due north and then 8 m due east, then his distance from the starting point is :

Which of the following is a right-angled

triangle?

Identify the hypotenuse.

What is the formula used to solve for the hypotenuse?

The iPad is measured by the screen's diagonal length.

Write Pythagoras' Theorem for each right-angled triangle.

What is the side from point A to point B called?

An orienteering course is set out as follows:

From the start travel 6 Km due south, then 4 Km due east and then return to the start.

Find:

a) the distance of the return (last) leg

b) the total distance you would run if you completed the whole course from start to finish.

Find x.

Do these three lengths form a right, acute or obtuse triangle? 20 ft, 21 ft, and 27 ft