Basic Geometry : Right Triangles

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Example Questions

Example Question #15 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #16 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #17 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #21 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #21 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #1523 : Basic Geometry

Find the measurement of .

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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Recall that the angles inside of a triangle must add up to . The small square in the corner of the triangle indicates that it is a right angle that measures  degrees.

Thus, for the triangle in question,

Example Question #23 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

A right triangle has equal legs of , and a hypotenuse of . Find the area. 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The equation to find the area of a triangle is: 

In this problem, both the base and the height are 6in. By plugging in the numbers, we get 

Example Question #1521 : Basic Geometry

A right triangle has another angle that is 47 degrees. What is the third angle?

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The inside of a triangle has three angles that total 180 degrees. If one is 47 and the other is the right angle (90).

Then

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To find the missing angle subtract the sum above from 180.

 is the degree measurement for the third angle.

Example Question #541 : Triangles

If one angle of a right triangle measures , what is the measure of its adjacent angle?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

First we need to know that no matter what type of triangle it is, when we add up the measures of all three angles, the total is .  The definition of a right triangle states that one of the three angles measures . In this problem we know that one of the angles measures  so we add that to  to get a sum of . To find our missing angle measure we must subtract the sum of the other two angles from the total, giving us an equation that looks like this. 

So our final answer is 

Example Question #26 : How To Find An Angle In A Right Triangle

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Refer to the above figure.

True or false: .

Possible Answers:

False

True

Correct answer:

False

Explanation:

If , then  is a 30-60-90 triangle. By the 30-60-90 Triangle Theorem, it would follow that hypotenuse  would be twice as long as shorter leg  - that is, 

,

However, since  and , then, substituting, 

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It follows that .

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