Friday, March 27, 2009
What I've found out so far
I used this website to help me further my investigation. http://www.saltire.com/applets/triangles/tri1s2a.htm On this website, I can put in any side lengths and any 2 angles (I chose 20 degrees and 70 degrees.) when I made the side either 3, 6, or 9, the third angle wasnt exactly 90 degrees, (it was actually 89 degrees) as any other side length is 90 degrees. So far, the pattern I found is that the hypotenuse of the triangle is one more than the second longest side.
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This seems like a really interesting pattern. Can you explain more about what you are seeing? Could you perhaps add a graphic of a triangle that would help to clarify what you are investigating. You have found a pattern that describes the hypotenuse. Is there are similar pattern that describes the length of the second side?
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