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7 3 Triangle Inequalities Lesson
7 3 Triangle Inequalities Lesson
7 3 Triangle Inequalities Lesson
notebook November28,2017
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7.3TriangleInequalities
LearningGoal:SWBATuseinequalitiestodescribetherelationshipamongsidelengthsand
anglemeasuresinatriangle
TriangleInequalityTheorem:
<lessthan,>greaterthan
Thesumofanytwosidelengthsofatriangleis
greaterthanthethirdsidelength.
Example1:
AB+BC>AC
A
AC+AB>BC
C
AC+BC>AB
B
Sidesofatriangleare....dothelengthscreateatriangle?
4,8,10 4+8>10 4+10>8 8+10>4
7,9,18
Addthe2shortestsidelengths,theymustbe
greaterthanthelongestsideinordertobea
triangle.
4,2,2dothesesidelengthscreateatriangle?
7.3Lesson 1
7.3TriangleInequalitiesLesson.notebook November28,2017
YourTurn:Determineifatrianglecanbe
formedwiththegivenlengths.Explainyour
reasoning.
12units,4units,17units 24cm,8cm,30cm
7.3Lesson 2
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Findtherangeofvaluesforxusingthe
Example2: TriangleInequalityTheorem
andinequality:______<x<______
shortestside longestside
xisgreaterthan____ANDlessthan_____
Findingpossiblesidelengthsofatriangle
12 shortestside longestside
x
10
x,15,15
21,14,x
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7.3Lesson 4
7.3TriangleInequalitiesLesson.notebook November28,2017
Example3
OrderingaTriangle'sAngleMeasuresGiven
itsSideLengths
SideAngleRelationshipsinTriangles
Iftwosidesofatrianglearenotcongruent,thenthe
largerangleisoppositethelongerside
7.3Lesson 5
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Longest
side
largest
angle
7.3Lesson 6
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Foreachtriangle,orderitsanglemeasuresfromleastto
greatest.
shortest
25
side 7
smallestangle
24
7.3Lesson 7
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7.3Lesson 9