Who is Pythagoras

Pythagoras was born in 570bc on a greek

island where he studied mathematics, and
found a group called the Brotherhood of
Pythagoreans. Pythagoras thought
numbers ruled the universe and many of
his numeral values were endowed
with spiritual qualities. The Pythagoreans
discovered irrational numbers, found an
amazing fact about triangles:If the triangle had
a right angle (90), and you made a square on
each of the three sides, then the biggest square
had the exact same area as the other two
squares put together!, and made a prediction
that the if the legs on a right triangle measured
1, then the hypotenuse will measure sqrt 2. But
they were disappointed to find out that the
number couldn't be measured with a ruler or
divided into fractional parts.Since they were
very shocked about these unutterable numbers
they put to death a member who dared to
mention their existence to the public. They
didn't know it would be 200 years later till a
great mathematician would develop a way to
deal with these unutterable numbers. If it wasn't
for the Babylonians and the Egyptians who
knows how long we would have gone with out
discovering the Pythagorean theorem.
The Pythagorean theorem states that
the sum of the side squared equal the
length of the hypotenuse squared.
Draw/label a diagram of each right triangle and nd the
measure of the missing leg to the nearest tenth. Show all
work using an equation!
1. a=48, b=?, c=60
2. a=?, b=38, c=45
3. a=15, b=?, c=25
4. a=?, b=72, c=78
Missing Length of the Hypotenuse
Find the measure of the missing hypotenuse to the
nearest tenth. Show all Work!
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Guide to the Pythagorean
Theorem

By: Gabriella Whited
Date: Tuesday, December 17th
Are you a Right Triangle: Tell
wether the given lengths form a
right triangles, Show all work!
1. 12, 15, 20
2. 18, 24, 30
3. 20, 21, 29
4. 2.1 ,2.8 , 3.5
Word Problems: Draw/label diagrams
& show all work!
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