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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!!
![Definition of Pythagorean Triples](PythagoreanTriplesDefinition.gif)
Following is an example of how these can be used...it's just quicker than doing all the algebra associated with Pythagorean Theorem:
![An example using Pythagorean Triples](example.gif)
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