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How can you find the height of a right triangle when you have the base and hypotenuse?
-- Square the hypotenuse. (Multiply it by itself.)-- Square the base. (Multiply it by itself.)-- Subtract the square of the base from the square of the hypotenuse.-- Take the square-root of the difference. It's the height of the triangle.
Easy ways to find the Hypotenuse?
For right angled triangles it is the square root of square of side A added to square of side B (sorry i don't have a square sign on my keyboard) hypotenuse=square root of AxA+BxB
Can you use the tangent ratio to find the length of the hypotenuse?
No; the tangent ratio only deals with the lengths of the opposite side and adjacent side. You can square the two sides and add them together, then find the square root of the sum to find the length of the hypotenuse.
How do you use the area of a square to find the hypotenuse?
The area of a square is the square of the side (all sides of a square are of equal lengths). So taking the square root of the area would give the value of one side in linear units. Now adjacent sides of a square form a right angle. Therfore the hypotenuse would be the square root of (side^2 + side^2) but you know the value of the side from the previous step when you took the square of the area. Hence you can find the hypotenuse.
How do you find a missing length in isosceles triangle?
1) The hypotenuse side will ALWAYS be the the side w/ the radical 2. 2) So if you want to find the HYPOTENUSE of an ISOSCELES triangle, you MULTIPLY one of the LEGS by the the square root of 2. 3) If you want to find the LEG of an ISOSCELES triangle, you DIVIDE the HYPOTENUSE by the square root of 2. ***** Hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle= one leg divided by square root of 2. ***** Leg of an isosceles triangle= hypotenuse divided by the square root of 2. You can also get all the help you need through my page on Facebook, 'Your Help' Merna Awad-ElSols
