The PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM provides us with the relationship between the sides in any right triangle. A right triangle consists of two legs and a hypotenuse. The two legs meet at the 90° angle and the hypotenuse is the longest side of the right triangle and is the side opposite the right angle.
The pythagorean theorem states that a + b = c or that the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
A Lesson in Geometry
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