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What are the Legs and Hypotenuse of a Right Triangle?
What are all the parts of a right triangle called? What makes it a right triangle? Legs? Triangles have legs? Hypotenuse? Pythagorean Theorem? The instructor diagrams and identifies all the parts of a right triangle for you.
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What is a Triangle?
Triangles, triangles, triangles. What makes a polygon a triangle? How many types of triangles are there? How do you determine what kind of triangle it is? Watch this video as the teacher explains 'tri' meaning three, making a triangle -...
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How Do You Find a Missing Side of a Right Triangle Using Cosine?
Trigonometry? What's trigonometry. Well, something to do with triangles, right? Right! Right triangles! In this problem, find the missing length of one of the sides. So set this up as a ratio: cosine(A) = adjacent side length divided by...
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How Do You Determine if a Triangle Is a Right Triangle if You Know its Sides?
Use the Pythagorean Theorem formula to check if this given triangle, with the given lengths of each side, is a right triangle. It's as simple as plugging the given values into the formula and doing the math to see if the solution checks...
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How Do You Classify Triangles?
Triangles are classified by their angle measurement as well as by the length of their sides. Here are some names that identify the types of triangles: isosceles, equilateral, scalene, obtuse, and acute. Watch this video to learn about...
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What are Equilateral, Isosceles, and Scalene Triangles?
Triangles are classified by their angle measurement as well as by the length of their sides. Here are some names that identify the types of triangles: right, isosceles, equilateral, scalene, obtuse, and acute. Watch this video to learn...
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What is a Polygon?
What makes a figure a polygon? Does it have three or more sides? Is it a closed figure? If the answer is yes to both of those questions then it's a polygon. But wait! Some of these polygons have special names based on the number of sides...
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How Do You Find the Length of a Leg of a Right Triangle?
A right triangle. Two given measurements for two side lengths and one unknown length. Use the Pythagorean theorem to solve this problem and find the missing value. Squares and square roots are used in this problem and don't worry when...
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How Do You Find Missing Measurements of Similar Figures Using a Proportion?
Two similar triangles have the same angles, but their legs have different lengths. This means their angles are congruent, and thusly, their corresponding sides are congruent. So there is a missing measurement that needs to be found. Set...