{"id":47,"date":"2011-12-28T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:33:51","slug":"solving-for-the-hypotenuse-the-pythagorean-theorem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/solving-for-the-hypotenuse-the-pythagorean-theorem\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving for the Hypotenuse: The Pythagorean Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Pythagorean Theorem, in a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.<\/p>\n<p>In the triangle below,<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/fig2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/fig2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>a<sup>2<\/sup> + b<sup>2<\/sup> = c<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c is the hypotenuse, the longest side<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a and b are the other two sides<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find the hypotenuse, take square root of the sum of squares of the other two sides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/eqn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53\" src=\"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/eqn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"93\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: Pythagorean Theorem is applicable only for right angled triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; According to Pythagorean Theorem, in a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. In the triangle below, a2 + b2 = c2 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 c is the hypotenuse, the longest side &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a and b are the other two sides &nbsp; To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[734,1086,1454,1693],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geometry","tag-geometry-2","tag-math","tag-pythagoreantheorem","tag-solvinghypotenuse"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}