PEPT Review MATH (Geometry) Day 8

Teacher RR Gonzales | 09262470711

PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF LESSONS

*From a scale of 1 10 (10 being the most familiar), how familiar are you with the following lessons?

___Polygons ___Triangle Congruence

___30-60-90 Rule ___Types of Triangles

___Pythagorean Theorem ___Solving For Polygon Angles

LESSON 1 POLYGONS
Polygons are closed figures with three or more straight sides. If all the sides are the same length,
and all the internal angles are equal, we call them regular polygons.

Polygons are named differently, depending on their number of sides. Take note of the following:
3 = triangle; 4 = tetragon; 5 = pentagon; 6 = hexagon; 7 = heptagon; 8 = octagon; 9 = nonagon;
10 = decagon.

A 3-side polygon makes up 180 degrees in internal angles (you know this from your day 3 lessons),
take note that for every side you add, you add another 180 degrees. Thus, a 4-sided polygon will
have 360 degrees and a 5-sided polygon will have 540 degrees. An easy formula to use in knowing
the total interior angle of any polygon would be (N 2) x 180 where N is the number of sides of
your polygon.

LESSON 2 30-60-90 RULE

Note: The 30-60-90 rule only works if the triangle has angles which are 30-60-90. If the angle only
has a 90-degree angle while the other two angles are different (for example, a 90-45-45 triangle),
use the topic provided in the next lesson.

In any 30-60-90 triangle, you see the following: (1) The shortest leg is across from the 30-degree
angle. (2) The length of the hypotenuse is always two times the length of the shortest leg. You can
find the long leg by multiplying the short leg by the square root of 3.

Note: The hypotenuse is the longest side in a right triangle, which is different from the long leg. The
long leg is the leg opposite the 60-degree angle.

The figure illustrates the ratio of the

sides for the 30-60-90-degree triangle:

If you know one side of a 30-60-90 triangle, you can find the other two by using shortcuts. For the
sake of the PEPT, know how to get the length of the shortest side by using the hypotenuse.

So if a triangles hypotenuse is 18, its shortest side would therefore be 9.

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 LESSON 3 PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM
The Pythagorean theorem is used to know the measurement of angle sides of a triangle. However,
the said theorem only applies to triangles with a 90-degree angle. The theorem is represented by
the formula, c = 2 + 2. In this formula, c = the hypotenuse, whereas a & b could be either of
the remaining sides.

Example 1 (solving for the hypotenuse)

Use the Pythagorean theorem to determine the length of X

Step 1: Identify the legs and the hypotenuse of the right triangle.

The legs have length '6 and '8'. 'X' is the hypotenuse because it is opposite the right angle.

Step 2: Substitute values into the formula (remember 'c' is the hypotenuse)

c = 2 + 2 becomes x = 62 + 82

Step 3: Solve for the unknown. In doing so, we find out that the answer is x = 10. Thus, the
hypotenuse of this triangle is 10.

LESSON 4 TRIANGLE CONGRUENCE

There are guidelines that help us know if triangles are congruent or not. Knowing these guidelines
is helpful because it saves us the need from measuring several triangles repeatedly.

There are 4 guidelines or postulates to look out for in triangle congruence.

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Basically, if you have two triangles that satisfy any of the given postulates, you have two congruent
triangles.

LESSON 5 - TYPES OF TRIANGLES

LESSON 6
This lesson is merely an application of all your other lessons on angles. Try it out in the following
questions.

1. What is the relationship between any given polygon and the number of triangles that can be
drawn inside?

2. If all angles in a heptagon are added together, what would the sum equal?

3. If the measures of the angles in a hexagon are as follows, find all the missing angle measures.
90, 115, x + 75, 2x - 20, x + 10, x

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4. The exterior angle of a regular nonagon measures 40 degrees. True or False?

5. In an isosceles, right triangle, what are the measures of the angles?

6. Find the sum of angles in a regular decagon.

7. Exterior and interior angles are complementary angles. True or False?

8. In a regular quadrilateral, what is the measure of an interior angle?

9. Listed below are the measures of angles in a polygon. Find the value of x.

x, x + 72, x + 80, 100, 120, 45, 80, 100