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John is using two right triangles to build a rabbit cage. Can his right triangles also be isosceles? Explain

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Sure, there's such a thing as an isosceles right triangle. It's what you get when you draw the diagonal of a square. It has one right angle (of course) and two 45 degree angles. It's the shape that vexed the Pythagoreans.

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