Showing posts with label Joelle's Pythagoras Growing Post. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Joelle's Pythagoras Growing Post
Part 1
A Pythagoras Triple is where three perfert squares connect to make a right triangle.

A and B are the legs of the triangle and when you add both them together are added together they equal c which is the hypotenuse of the triangle.
A²+B²=C² is an equation to find C². Part 2



Part 3


Mr. H jumped into a canoe to cross a river that runs east to and is 20m wide. The current carried him downstream 8m before he reached the other side. How far did he traval in total?



Part 4

If you throw a ball on a wall that is 10m high, you are 6 meters away, and you release the ball 3 meters away from the ground. How far do you have to throw the ball to get it to the top of the wall?