The Theory of Pythagoras
Published by Sorrel January 9th, 2007 in scribeposts 
We call C the Hypotenuse of this right angled triangle.
The Hypotenuse is allways opposite of the right angle! This is the process to work out the length of C!
Using the length of A draw a square,(all the sides of the square are the same length). repeat this on the b and c sides of the triangle :
Square A and B if taken apart fit into C like this:
So if A was 9 and B was 7 we would know that both B squared and a squared together fit into C.
Therefore Pythagoras’s thearem say’s :
A squared + B squared = C squared
So to work out the length of C your sum would look like this………(s means squared)
Cs= AS + BS
Cs= 9S + 7S
Cs= 81 + 49
Cs= 130
C= Square root of 130
c= 11
p,s i have forgotten how to put in hyper links so if some one good tell me i will add one in !
pps i choose zoe !
Nice work Sorrel! I like the diagrams, and the fact that you’ve done a worked example. isn’t the middle diagram labelled differently from the others?
You can do squares as ^2, and if you put it inside [ tex] and [/tex ] (without the spaces) it’ll look like this:
You can put links in by just copying and pasting the address of the site. There’s a link to the fancier way of doing it at the top of this blog.
Nice Post Sorrel. I really liked how you used illustrations to explain your scribe. There are lots of great tools to enhance scribeposts at studentblogwikitools.wikispaces.com.
keep up the great scribing.
Mr. Harbeck
Hey Sorrel!
This is a great scribe post. The use of pictures greatly enhanced your explanations. Keep up the good work =)
the square root of 130 isnt 11
this website is hard to follow
11 isnt the square root of 130
i like it but some of yours maths is a bit wrong
Thank-you, this will help me in my SATS, but the square root of 130 isn’t 11.=)
Pythagoras theory=
The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides.
A load of nonsense, until you see it in action.
ps, construction workers use pythagoras all the time to find right angles, but they tend to use the 345 rule. 3 and 4 being the right angled sides, and 5 being the hypotenuse.
This is a great website to explain his theory. I’ve visited 2 other and it isn’t as good as this one.
Hey i love this, its so easy to follow, and as i am ginger it makes it even better =] xx
wahoooooo dude u r soo like the best this explanation of the teory has so totally like helped me out and settled my mind man. thanks loads and may thr hippy culture embrace your life like it has mine
great! it really helped with my homework!!!!!!!!!! too bad i cant fit the diagrams on my poster!!!
a,b and c are in different places in all the diagrams! confusing!!!!! how can a and b fit into c when a is bigger than c??????