How Do You Determine if a Triangle Is a Right Triangle if You Know its Sides?

How Do You Determine if a Triangle Is a Right Triangle if You Know its Sides?

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Think your triangle is a right triangle? Want to be sure? If you have the length of each side, apply the Pythagorean theorem to the triangle. If you get a true statement when you simplify, then you do indeed have a right triangle! If you get a false statement, then you can be sure that your triangle is not a right triangle. Check out this tutorial and learn how use the Pythagorean theorem to see if a triangle is a right triangle!

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