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            Lesson 9-6 - Families of Right Triangles 
            Today, we talked about Pythagorean Triples.  This is a pretty straight forward concept...these are just multiples of well-known right triangles.  It will behoove you to memorize the ones given below at a minimum!! 
              
            Following is an example of how these can be used...it's just quicker than doing all the algebra associated with Pythagorean Theorem: 
              
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