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  • 07-12-2020
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Do the segment lengths 15,12 and 9 form a right triangle

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Answer:

  yes

Step-by-step explanation:

You can check to see if the numbers satisfy the Pythagorean theorem.

  9² +12² ?= 15²

  81 + 144 = 225 . . . . yes these segments form a right triangle

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You know that segments of lengths 3, 4, 5 form a right triangle. This is the first "Pythagorean triple" that most folks run across. The segments given here are all 3 times those numbers, so will also form a right triangle.

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