What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?

Which of the following did Pythagoras NOT use his math discovery for?

• Finding his way home

• Fixing the length of the ladder

• Calculating the distance to Crete

• Finding the side lengths of the stone triangle

What is the formula Pythagoras created?

• $a\ +\ b\ =\ c$
  

• $a^2\ +\ b^2\ =\ c^2$

• $a^2\ =\ b^2\ +\ c^2$

• $c\ =\ a^2\ +\ b^2$

The Pythagorean Theorem can be used to find the side lengths of _______________ triangles.

• right

• acute

• obtuse

• equilateral

What Pythagorean triple does the picture illustrate?

• 4, 5, 6

• 2, 3, 4

• 3, 4, 5

• 9, 16, 25

Pythagoras was well known for what?

• math theorem

• painting

• poetry

• writing literature

In a right triangle, what is the side opposite the right angle called?

• leg a

• leg b

• hypotenuse

• base

 $a^2\ +\ b^2\ =\ c^2$  

The a and b in this formula refer to what part of a right triangle?

• legs

• hypotenuse

• longest sides

• smallest angles

What is a right triangle?

• a triangle with all angles equal to 90 degrees

• a triangle with all sides equal to each other

• a triangle with all sides equal to 90 degrees

• a triangle with one 90 degree angle