Pythagorean relationship
The Pythagorean relationship describes the relationship between the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle. This crops up in a lot of types of questions… including word problems about distance and height and problems about the distance between two points on a graph. That’s because right triangles are everywhere! Learn more about the Pythagorean relationship…
Read Curtis’s posts about right triangles.
Pythagorean relationship on Ask Dr. Math.
Interactive figures to understand the Pythagorean relationship.
Pythagorean Theorem on Nova.
Mathematical proofs that show why the Pythagorean relationship is true.
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