Question

What side lengths form a right triangle

Answer 1

Answer:(use the Pythagorean formula)

Explanation:

Find the two smaller sides. Square each one them add them together. Then square the third side (the biggest side). If your two answers match, it's a right triangle!

Make sure that you don't make the mistake of adding the two smaller sides together before squaring.

Answer 2

B and C

Explanation:

Use the Pythagorean Theorem a^2+b^2=c^2.

We can see in B that 8^2 is 64 and 15^2 is 225 which adds to 17^2 which is 289.

In C, the sqrt of 2 squared is just 2 and adding that by another sqrt 2^2 results in 4 which is also the value of 2^2.