Pythagorean Theorem Post Test

Find h

• 35.60

• 35.00

• 35.71

• 61.03

You need a 27 foot ladder that will reach up a 25 foot tall house when placed x feet away from the bottom of the house. APPROXIMATELY, how far away from the bottom of the house does the ladder need to be?

• 23 feet

• 20 feet

• 10 feet

• 15 feet

Tanya runs diagonally across a rectangular field that has a length of 40 yards and a width of 30 yards. What is the length of the diagonal, in yards, that Tanya runs?

• 26.5 yards

• 10 yards

• 50 yards

• 46.7 yards

Durham and Chapel Hill are 14 miles apart. Chapel Hill and Raleigh are 28 miles part. Raleigh and Durham are 25 miles part. Do these three cities form a right triangle?

• Yes they form a right triangle

• No they do not form a right triangle

A soccer field is a rectangle 90 meters wide and 120 meters long. The coach asks players to run from one corner to the corner diagonally across. What is this distance?

• 210 m

• 180 m

• 150 m

• 79 m

Be sure to answer the question.

_{^{Find the missing side}}

• 9

• 41

• 6.4

• 3

• 7 ft

• 5 ft

• 3 ft

• 2 ft

Find the length of the missing side. 

• 25 cm

• 42 cm

• 52 cm

• 48 cm

• The top of the ladder is 8.9 ft from the ground
• The top of the ladder is 9.2 ft from the ground
• The top of the ladder is 16.5 ft from the ground
• The top o the ladder is 14.4 ft from the ground