Pythagoras worked out that for any right angle triangle that its hypotenuse when squared is equal to the sum of its squared sides.
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Pythagoras discovred it to find unknown sides in a right angled triangle
Pythagoras's Theorem is used to determine if a triangle is a right triangle or not.
If you know any two sides of a right triangle, you can calculate the third by Pythagoras' Theorem.If you know any two sides of a right triangle, you can calculate the third by Pythagoras' Theorem.If you know any two sides of a right triangle, you can calculate the third by Pythagoras' Theorem.If you know any two sides of a right triangle, you can calculate the third by Pythagoras' Theorem.
The area of ANY triangle is base x height. The height must be measured perpendicular to the base. In the case of an isosceles triangle, if you know only the length of the sides, you can figure out the height by Pythagoras' Theorem.
Pythagoras' theorem