Intro to Trig: Day One

Warm Up A. Find the missing sides in these triangles:

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B. The Hypotenuse of a Triangle is 6 ft, and the Bottom Side of the Triangle is 5.9 ft. What is the length of the missing side?

Important Stuff:

1. Complete the Missing Side Worksheet. The first triangle has been drawn on
there already.

2. Graph the equation x 2 + y 2 = 16 by finding points that satisfy the equation, and
then graphing them.

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Intro to Trig: Day One Name:________________________ 3. You should see the same shape appearing in Q1 and Q2. Heres the really
important question: why is that shape appearing? Whats the connection 2 2 between x + y = 16 and that shape?

4. Graph the equations x 2 + y 2 = 9 and x 2 + y 2 = 25 .

5. If youve made it this far and havent realized that were dealing with circles, then go back and fix your work. If youre on board, then work through this sequence of problems:

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Intro to Trig: Day One

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6. Find the radius and the center of each of the circles whose equations are shown below:

Interesting Stuff: 7. The following diagram is used to prove the Pythagorean Theorem. Can you figure out how?

8. Complete the square on x 2 + 10 x and y 2 2 y to discover what the radius and 2 2 the center of x + 10 x + y 2 y = 10 is.

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