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Round all of your answers to the nearest thousandth if necessary.
For the right triangles in #1 - #5 calculate the missing length.

1. 2.
10 m
C in.
6 in.

Cm 12 m
8 in.

ANSWER:___________
ANSWER:___________

3. 4.
C ft 9m
2 ft

10 ft 15 m Bm

ANSWER:___________ ANSWER:___________

5. 6. The length of one leg of a right triangle is 8

6 ft 6 ft inches. The other leg is 14 inches. How long is the
hypotenuse?

C ft

ANSWER:___________

7. The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is

16 meters. The length of one of the legs is 12
meters. How long is the other leg?

ANSWER:___________

ANSWER:___________
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8. A 24 foot tall building has a 7 foot wide alley
next to it. How tall would a ladder be, if it rested at
the top of this building and had it’s base against the
bottom of the building next to it?

24 ft

7 ft

Answer: ____________

9. Given three lines with the following lengths, can

they form a right triangle? Provide a proof for your
answer. 9 ft, 12 ft, 18 ft
(Hint: the equation a2 +b2 = c2 is only true for right triangles)
PROOF:

ANSWER:__________

10. Three grey right triangles are placed together

within a rectangle. Their hypotenuses form a fourth
triangle shown in white. Could this fourth triangle
be a right triangle? Provide a proof for your
answer. (please note that the drawing is not to scale)

12 12
9 15
16
7
24
PROOF:

ANSWER: ___________________

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******* PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM WORKSHEET ********** ANSWER KEY
1. 10 in.
2. 15.620 m
3. 10.198 ft.
4. 12 m
5. 8.485 ft
6. 16.125 in.
7. 10.583 m
8. 25 ft
9. No; 81 + 144 ≠ 324
10. Answer: Yes
Proof:
7 2  24 2  625
625  25
12 2  16 2  400
400  20
152  20 2  252
225  400  625

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