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    This document discusses three students' solutions to finding the missing angle of a right triangle. Ms. Stutt took the ratio of the third leg to the hypotenuse. Mr. Kinnell took the ratio of the opposite leg to the adjacent leg. Mr. Shah took the ratio of the opposite leg to the hypotenuse. All three students found the missing angle to be 31 degrees by looking it up in a right triangle ratio table. The document asks which solution was easiest, which was incorrect, and which triangles could still be solved if parts of the ratio table were erased.

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    This document discusses three students' solutions to finding the missing angle of a right triangle. Ms. Stutt took the ratio of the third leg to the hypotenuse. Mr. Kinnell took the ratio of the opposite leg to the adjacent leg. Mr. Shah took the ratio of the opposite leg to the hypotenuse. All three students found the missing angle to be 31 degrees by looking it up in a right triangle ratio table. The document asks which solution was easiest, which was incorrect, and which triangles could still be solved if parts of the ratio table were erased.

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    This document discusses three students' solutions to finding the missing angle of a right triangle. Ms. Stutt took the ratio of the third leg to the hypotenuse. Mr. Kinnell took the ratio of the opposite leg to the adjacent leg. Mr. Shah took the ratio of the opposite leg to the hypotenuse. All three students found the missing angle to be 31 degrees by looking it up in a right triangle ratio table. The document asks which solution was easiest, which was incorrect, and which triangles could still be solved if parts of the ratio table were erased.

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    NAME

    DATE

    BAND

    SIMILAR RIGHT TRIANGLES #2.5: WHY THREE RATIOS?


    ADV GEOMETRY | PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE

    Ms. Stutt found the missing angle in this triangle in the following way
    She first found the length of the third leg using the Pythagorean theorem, and got about 2.6552.
    She then took the ratio of that third leg to the hypotenuse, and got 2.6552/3.0976 (approx 0.8572)
    She then looked in our Table of Right Triangle Ratios and found the missing angle was 31 degrees.
    Mr. Kinnell found the missing angle in this triangle in the following way
    He first found the length of the third leg using the Pythagorean theorem, and got about 2.6552.
    He then took the ratio of the opposite leg to the adjacent leg, and got 1.5954/2.6552 (approx 0.6009)
    He then looked in our Table of Right Triangle Ratios and found the missing angle was 31 degrees.
    Mr. Shah found the missing angle in this triangle in the following way
    He took the ratio of the opposite leg to the hypotenuse, and got 1.5954/3.0976 (approx 0.5150).
    He then looked in our Table of Right Triangle Ratios and found the missing angle was 31 degrees.

    1. Whose solution was the easiest/most elegant? Why?

    2. Whose solution was incorrect?

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    3. Youve been working with lots of triangles, and using our Table of Right Triangle Ratios. Lets say
    someone spilled ink on the last two columns of the entire table so it looks like:
    Angle
    (degree)
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15

    leg opposite of angle


    hypotenuse

    leg adjacent to the angle


    hypotenuse

    leg opposite of angle


    leg adjacent to the angle

    0.0175
    0.0349
    0.0523
    0.0698
    0.0872
    0.1045
    0.1219
    0.1392
    0.1564
    0.1736
    0.1908
    0.2079
    0.2250
    0.2419
    0.2588

    0.9998
    0.9994
    0.9986
    0.9976
    0.9962
    0.9945
    0.9925
    0.9903
    0.9877
    0.9848
    0.9816
    0.9781
    0.9744
    0.9703
    0.9659

    0.0175
    0.0349
    0.0524
    0.0699
    0.0875
    0.1051
    0.1228
    0.1405
    0.1584
    0.1763
    0.1944
    0.2126
    0.2309
    0.2493
    0.2679

    Look at the triangles (that youve seen before!) below, and circle the triangles you could still find the missing
    angle of. Put an X through the triangles that you cannot determine the missing angle of.

    4. The Big Conclusion (well fill this in as a class):

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