pythagorean theorem

Draw this rectangle and you'll see we have a pythagorean theorem equation. a^2 + b^2= c^2 b = 8 and c= 10 a^2 + 8^2 = 10^2 a^2 + 64 = 100 Subtract 64 from each side: a^2 = 36 a= 6 Therefore, perimeter P is: P = 2l + 2w P = 2(6) + 2(8) P = 12 + 16 P = 28

Gigi’s family left their house and drove 14 miles south to a gas station and then 48 miles east to a water park. How much shorter would their trip to the water park have been if they hadn’t stopped at the gas station and had driven along the diagonal path instead? Using our Pythagorean...

a^2 + b^2 = c^2 for c Take the square root of each side: c = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)

A bird was sitting 12 meters from the base of an oak tree and flew 15 meters to reach the top of the tree. How tall is the tree? So we have a right triangle. Hypotenuse is 15. Base is 12. We want the length of the leg. The formula for a right triangle relation of sides is a^2 + b^2 = c^2 where...

A young dad, who was a star football player in college, set up a miniature football field for his five-year-old young daughter, who was already displaying an unusual talent for place-kicking. At each end of the mini-field, he set up goal posts so she could practice kicking extra points and field...

A ladder rests 2.5 m from the base of a house. If the ladder is 4 m long, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach? We have a right triangle with the hypotenuse as 4, the one leg as 2.5 We want to solve for the other leg length. We use our right triangle solver to get 3.122

A 50-foot pole and a 70-foot pole are 30 feet apart. If you were to run a line between the tops of the two poles, what is the minimum length of cord you would need? The difference between the 70 foot and 50 foot pole is: 70 - 50 = 20 foot height difference. So we have a right triangle, with a...

A 12 feet ladder leans against the side of a house. The bottom of the ladder is 9 feet from the side of the house. How high is the top of the ladder from the ground? If necessary, round your answer to the nearest tenth. We have a right triangle, where 12 is the hypotenuse. Using our right...

A 13ft ladder leans against the side of a house. The bottom of the ladder is 10ft from the side of the house. How high is the top of the ladder from the ground? If necessary, round your answer to the nearest tenth. We have a right triangle. Hypotenuse = 13, one leg = 10. We use our Pythagorean...

A 74 inch rake is Leaning against a wall. The top of the rake hits the wall 70 inches above the ground. How far is the bottom of the rake from the base of the wall? We have a right triangle. Hypotenuse is the rake length fo 74 inches. One of the legs is 70. We use our right triangle calculator...

Sam leaves school to go home. He walks 10 blocks North and then 8 blocks west. How far is John from the school? Sam walked at a right angle. His distance from home to school is the hypotenuse. Using our Pythagorean theorem calculator, we get: 12.806 blocks

The distance between consecutive bases is 90 feet. An outfielder catches the ball on the third base line about 40 feet behind third base. How far would the outfielder have to throw the ball to first base? We have a right triangle. From home base to third base is 90 feet. We add another 40 feet...

A 13 ft. ladder is leaning against a building 12 ft. up from the ground. How far is the base of the ladder from the building? This is a classic 5-12-13 pythagorean triple, where the hypotenuse is 13, and the 2 sides are 5 and 12. The building and the ground form a right triangle. You can see...

A computer screen has a diagonal dimension of 19 inches and a width of 15 inches. Approximately what is the height of the screen? We have a right triangle, with hypotenuse of 19, and width of 15. Using our right triangle calculator, we get height = 11.662

Running from the top of a flagpole to a hook in the ground there is a rope that is 9 meters long. If the hook is 4 meters from the base of the flagpole, how tall is the flagpole? We have a right triangle, with hypotenuse of 9 and side of 4. Using our Pythagorean Theorem calculator, we get a...

A ladder is 25 ft long. The ladder needs to reach to a window that is 24 ft above the ground. How far away from the building should the bottom of the ladder be placed? We have a right triangle, where the ladder is the hypotenuse, and the window side is one side. Using our right triangle and...

A ladder 25 feet long is leaning against a wall. If the base of the ladder is 7 feet from the wall, how high up the wall does the ladder reach? We have a right triangle, where the ladder is the hypotenuse, and we want the measurement of one leg. Set up the pythagorean theorem with these given...

A helicopter rose vertically 300 m and then flew west 400 m how far was the helicopter from it’s starting point? The distance forms a right triangle. We want the distance of the hypotenuse. Using our right triangle calculator, we get a distance of 500. We also could use a shortcut on this...

Given the rectangular prism below, if AB = 6 in., AD = 8 in. and BF = 24, find the length of FD. If AB = 6 and AD = 8, by the Pythagorean theorem, we have BD = 10 from our Pythagorean Theorem Calculator Using that, we have another right triangle which we can use the pythagorean theorem...