\n To prove that the Pythagorean theorem works, leave out the dimensions and represent the trunk of the car with a right triangle ABC.\n <\/p>\n
\n Drawing an altitude from vertex C to side c creates two new triangles, BCD and ACD (see diagram).\n <\/p>\n
\n a. Here are the three triangles shown separately These triangles are similar. How do you know? HINT: Compare the angle measures. (1 point)\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To prove that the Pythagorean theorem works, leave out the dimensions and represent the trunk of the car with a right triangle ABC. Drawing an altitude from vertex C to side c creates two new triangles, BCD and ACD (see diagram). a. Here are the three triangles shown separately These triangles are similar. How do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}