January 6, 2015

Take out lined paper to take

notes on! Get ready for a warmup

Warm-up
Solve for the missing pieceround to the nearest hundredth

Find the area

Find x.

Converse of the
Pythagorean Theorem

Try using theorem on

acute/obtuse
Acute triangles
6

2 _____2 + 2
82 _____62 + 72
64_____36 + 49
<
64_____85

Obtuse triangles
25

17

38

2 _____2 + 2

382 _____252 + 172

1444_____625 + 289
>
1444_____914

Converse of Pythagorean
theorem
If 2 = 2 + 2 , then the triangle is a right triangle.
If 2 < 2 + 2 , then the triangle is an acute triangle.
If 2 > 2 + 2 , then the triangle is an obtuse triangle.

Notice how you determine it by the relationship to

2 . Determine the type of triangle by determine if
term is equal, smaller, or bigger!

Determine if the segments can

form a triangle. If so, is it an
acute, right, or obtuse triangle?

a. 9,15,3 34

b. 22, 13, 26

17.49

Will form a triangle!

2 _____2 + 2

34)2 _____92

(3
=
306_____306

>
676_____653

+ 152

Obtuse Triangle

Right Triangle

c. 5, 6, 61
61_____61
=

Right Triangle

d. 4.3 ft, 5.2 ft, 6.1 ft

37.21_____45.53
<
Acute Triangle

Word problem

You walk 749 ft due east to the gym from your house.
From the gym you walk 800 feet southwest from the
library. Finally, you walk 305 feet from the library back
home. Do you live directly north of the library?
Explain.
Using the correct comparisons, you end up with
< 654026
640,000 ____

Since they are not equal, it is not a right triangle.

You do not live directly north of the library.