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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

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

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