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Lesson 9-8 - The Pythagorean Theorem and Space Figures
Today, we applied the Pythagorean Theorem to figures in space. We started with some basic definitions:
![Definitions related to prisms and pyramids](prismPyramidDefinitions.gif)
Given these definitions, you should be all set with this section...it's really not that hard. We went over the following example:
![Prism Example](prismExampleExample1.gif)
The first thing was to figure out what DB was by using the triangle shown:
![Prism Example Step 2](prismExampleExample1Step2.gif)
Then, we used the red triangle shown below to figure out HB:
![Prism example Step 3](prismExampleExample1Step3.gif)
Not bad, right? Here's another example...you should be able to follow the steps:
![Pyramid Example](pyramidExample.gif)
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