I promised you that I'd give you some more Pythagorean
theorem problems, so I will now give you more Pythagorean
theorem problems.
And once again, this is all about practice.
Let's say I had a triangle-- that's an ugly looking right
triangle, let me draw another one --and if I were to tell
you that that side is 7, the side is 6, and I want to
figure out this side.
Well, we learned in the last presentation: which of these
sides is the hypotenuse?
Well, here's the right angle, so the side opposite the right
angle is the hypotenuse.
So what we want to do is actually figure
out the hypotenuse.
So we know that 6 squared plus 7 squared is equal to
the hypotenuse squared.
And in the Pythagorean theorem they use C to represent the
hypotenuse, so we'll use C here as well.
And 36 plus 49 is equal to C squared.
85 is equal to C squared.
Or C is equal to the square root of 85.
And this is the part that most people have trouble with, is
actually simplifying the radical.
So the square root of 85: can I factor 85 so it's a product of
a perfect square and another number?
85 isn't divisible by 4.
So it won't be divisible by 16 or any of the multiples of 4.
5 goes into 85 how many times?
No, that's not perfect square, either.
I don't think 85 can be factored further as a
product of a perfect square and another number.
So you might correct me; I might be wrong.
This might be good exercise for you to do later, but as far as
I can tell we have gotten our answer.
The answer here is the square root of 85.
And if we actually wanted to estimate what that is, let's
think about it: the square root of 81 is 9, and the square root
of 100 is 10 , so it's some place in between 9 and 10, and
it's probably a little bit closer to 9.
So it's 9 point something, something, something.
And that's a good reality check; that makes sense.
If this side is 6, this side is 7, 9 point something,
something, something makes sense for that length.
Let me give you another problem.
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Let's say that this is 10 .
This is 3.
What is this side?
First, let's identify our hypotenuse.
We have our right angle here, so the side opposite the right
angle is the hypotenuse and it's also the longest side.
So it's 10.
So 10 squared is equal to the sum of the squares
of the other two sides.
This is equal to 3 squared-- let's call this A.
Pick it arbitrarily.
--plus A squared.
Well, this is 100, is equal to 9 plus A squared, or A squared
is equal to 100 minus 9.
A squared is equal to 91.
I don't think that can be simplified further, either.
3 doesn't go into it.
I wonder, is 91 a prime number?
I'm not sure.
As far as I know, we're done with this problem.
Let me give you another problem, And actually, this
time I'm going to include one extra step just to confuse you
because I think you're getting this a little bit too easily.
Let's say I have a triangle.
And once again, we're dealing all with right triangles now.
And never are you going to attempt to use the Pythagorean
theorem unless you know for a fact that's all right triangle.
But this example, we know that this is right triangle.
If I would tell you the length of this side is 5, and if our
tell you that this angle is 45 degrees, can we figure out the
other two sides of this triangle?
Well, we can't use the Pythagorean theorem directly
because the Pythagorean theorem tells us that if have a right
triangle and we know two of the sides that we can figure
out the third side.
Here we have a right triangle and we only
know one of the sides.
So we can't figure out the other two just yet.
But maybe we can use this extra information right here, this 45
degrees, to figure out another side, and then we'd be able
use the Pythagorean theorem.
Well, we know that the angles in a triangle
add up to 180 degrees.
Well, hopefully you know the angles in a triangle
add up to 180 degrees.
If you don't it's my fault because I haven't taught
you that already.
So let's figure out what the angles of this
triangle add up to.
Well, I mean we know they add up to 180, but using that
information, we could figure out what this angle is.
Because we know that this angle is 90, this angle is 45.
So we say 45-- lets call this angle x; I'm trying to make it
messy --45 plus 90-- this [INAUDIBLE]
is a 90 degree angle --plus is equal to 180 degrees.
And that's because the angles in a triangle always
add up to 180 degrees.
So if we just solve for x, we get 135 plus x is equal to 180.
Subtract 135 from both sides.
We get x is equal to 45 degrees.
Interesting.
x is also 45 degrees.
So we have a 90 degree angle and two 45 degree angles.
Now I'm going to give you another theorem that's not
named after the head of a religion or the
founder of religion.
I actually don't think this theorem doesn't have a name at.
All It's the fact that if I have another triangle --I'm
going to draw another triangle out here --where two of the
base angles are the same-- and when I say base angle, I just
mean if these two angles are the same, let's call it a.
They're both a --then the sides that they don't share-- these
angles share this side, right?
--but if we look at the sides that they don't share, we know
that these sides are equal.
I forgot what we call this in geometry class.
Maybe I'll look it up in another presentation;
I'll let you know.
But I got this far without knowing what the name
of the theorem is.
And it makes sense; you don't even need me to tell you that.
If I were to change one of these angles, the length
would also change.
Or another way to think about it, the only way-- no, I
don't confuse you too much.
But you can visually see that if these two sides are the
same, then these two angles are going to be the same.
If you changed one of these sides' lengths, then the angles
will also change, or the angles will not be equal anymore.
But I'll leave that for you to think about.
But just take my word for it right now that if two angles in
a triangle are equivalent, then the sides that they don't share
are also equal in length.
Make sure you remember: not the side that they share-- because
that can't be equal to anything --it's the side that they don't
share are equal in length.
So here we have an example where we have to equal angles.
They're both 45 degrees.
So that means that the sides that they don't share-- this is
the side they share, right?
Both angle share this side --so that means that the side that
they don't share are equal.
So this side is equal to this side.
And I think you might be experiencing an ah-hah
moment that right now.
Well this side is equal to this side-- I gave you at the
beginning of this problem that this side is equal to 5 --so
then we know that this side is equal to 5.
And now we can do the Pythagorean theorem.
We know this is the hypotenuse, right?
So we can say 5 squared plus 5 squared is equal to-- let's say
C squared, where C is the length of the hypotenuse --5
squared plus 5 squared-- that's just 50 --is equal
to C squared.
And then we get C is equal to the square root of 50.
And 50 is 2 times 25, so C is equal to 5 square roots of 2.
Interesting.
So I think I might have given you a lot of information there.
If you get confused, maybe you want to re-watch this video.
But on the next video I'm actually going to give you more
information about this type of triangle, which is actually a
very common type of triangle you'll see in geometry and
trigonometry 45, 45, 90 triangle.
And it makes sense why it's called that because it has
45 degrees, 45 degrees, and a 90 degree angle.
And I'll actually show you a quick way of using that
information that it is a 45, 45, 90 degree triangle to
figure out the size if you're given even one of the sides.
I hope I haven't confused you too much, and I look forward
to seeing you in the next presentation.
See you later.