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The side length of a triangle are 5, 3, and 4. Is this the right triangle?

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Note how it maintains the same proportions between its sides. Any triangle whose sides are in the ratio 3:4:5 is a right triangle. Such triangles that have their sides in the ratio of whole numbers are called Pythagorean Triples. There are an infinite number of them, and this is just the smallest.

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