Mehal Kashyap
9/9/2014 05:50:10 am
The pythagorean theorem is used to find the third side of a right triangle . . . it is used in the distance formula because of the fact that the third side (c) in the theorem could be substituted as the line in between two points. Using this you can draw a right triangle . . .
Adithya Arun
9/12/2014 08:19:20 am
The Pythagorean theorem is a squared + b squared= c squared. It is used to find the sides of a right triangle, with a and b being the legs and c being the hypotenuse. The distance formula and the Pythagorean theorem are related because the x and y axis are the legs of the right triangle( they meet at 90 degrees), while the distance that you are trying to find is actually the hypotenuse. The distance formula is just a variant of the Pythagorean theorem for the coordinate plane.
Khush T.
9/9/2014 06:32:25 am
The Pythagorean theorem is a^2+b^2=c^2. (A and B being legs and C being the hypotenuse, only works with right triangles.) We use this too figure out the hypotenuse's length when not given. It is similar to the distance formula because they both require you to find a length not given.
Aislinn Verma
9/9/2014 06:48:08 am
The pythagorean theorem is usually used to find the length of the hypotenuse. However, you can use it to find a side if the hypotenuse and and the other side is given. Pythagorean theorem is similar to distance formula because you often have to find the distance between two points in a triangle, and you can use the pythagorean theorem to do that as well.
Jigisha
9/9/2014 06:55:52 am
The Pythagorean theorem illustrates a relation between the 3 sides of a right triangle.
Shivank Agrawal
9/9/2014 07:04:12 am
What is the Pythagorean Theorem? Why do we use it? Explain how it relates to the distance formula.
Rohan
9/9/2014 02:08:41 pm
The pythagorean theorum is a formula for finding the third, or longest side of a triangle. (The formula being a^2+b^2=c^2 as many people said). When given two sides of a RIGHT triangle, you use this formula to find the hypotenuse. This theorum is very similar to the distance formula.
Rohan
9/9/2014 02:13:18 pm
You have to find a missing number in both situations, therefore making them very similar. The pythagorean theorum has been around for a very long time, ever since Pythagoreaus proved it somewhere around 500 B.C. Scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and many more people use this formula. It is really helpful for finding a hypotenuse!!
Sara D.
9/9/2014 09:20:05 pm
The Pythagorean Theorem is one that relates the sides of a right triangle to each other. The formula is: a^2 + b^2 = c^2 where a and b are the legs and c is the hypotenuse of the triangle. This theorem was actually independently derived in many places (fun fact xD) and also there is an extended version of the theorem which is called the law of cosines which is: a^2 + b^2 - 2*a*b*cos(theta) = c^2 where again a and b are the legs and theta (where's the symbol?) is the angle across from c and stuff. So the Pythagorean Theorem is sort of a special case of the other thing, but I don't think we use that a lot. At least not in class. Whatever. Off topic.
Shashaank S.
9/9/2014 09:27:14 pm
The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula that can be used to find the hypotenuse(the longest side) of a triangle. The formula is a^2+b^2=c^2 and can also be used to find the length of one of the legs if the hypotenuse's length is already known. The formula relates to the distance formula because of the fact that we form a right triangle on a graph when trying to find the distance between two points. We then go on to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse which would be the distance between the two points.
Ayush p.
9/10/2014 12:23:20 pm
The pythagorean Theorem is used to find the longest side of a triangle. The formula is a^2+b^2=c^2. A and B represent the two smaller sides of the right triangle while the C represents the longest side. This is related to the distance formula because we too need to find the unknown length and that could be the c^2 in the formula.
Srija Roy
9/11/2014 07:46:01 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is a way to find the third side of the triangle, also known as the hypotenuse. The formula for this is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. This relates to the distance formula as you are finding the length of a line segment(in this case, the hypotenuse of a triangle) which is what the distance formula is also used for.
Edmund
9/11/2014 10:06:03 am
I dont know if this works but yea. well the pythagorean theurum is a way to solve for any side of a triangle as long as the other two sides are shown. The actual formula is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. it is also related to the distance formula. So take two points, for example 1,0 and 0,5. You can make a triangle with those points if you draw a horizontal or vertical line through those two points and in this case it would be the origin. 0,0 and you can count the x and y and that is basically the "a" and the "b" in the formula. its pretty darn hard to explain q.q.
Sherwin Pan
9/11/2014 10:25:34 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is used to find the hypotenuse of any right triangle with the formula A square plus B square equals C square (having C as the hypotenuse). The reason why it relates to the distance formula (square root of {x1 - x2}{y1 - y2}) is because any two points can form a right triangle. To do this, you just draw a vertical line from the top point and a horizontal point from the bottom point. Wherever the intersection is, the vertical line to this point and the horizontal line to this point makes up the legs of a right triangle, with {x1 - x2} as the height and {y1 - y2} as the base.
Adrian
9/11/2014 11:14:38 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is the formula/ theorem which states that/ is used to find the hypotenuse of any right triangle by using the two other sides in the equation A squared + B squared is = C squared. The reason why it relates to the distance formula is because you can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance between two points, by creating a right triangle using the points given and thus finding the hypotenuse, which in this case, is instead the distance.
meenu
9/11/2014 11:43:09 am
In the Pythagorean Theorem, the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side of a right triangle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. We use it to describe the relationship of the hypotenuse to the two other sides of that particular triangle. The Distance Formula is actually the variant of the Pythagorean Theorem. In relation to the distance formula, both formula's are ways to find the distance form one point to another. For example in a right triangle you can use either formulas to find the distance/length from one point to another. In the case of a right triangle, then it would be a point from one end of the hypotenuse to another. 9/11/2014 12:14:09 pm
The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula used to find the length of the hypotenuse or one of the legs of any right triangle. The Pythagorean theorem is used to find the length of an unknown side of a right triangle when two side lengths are given. The Pythagorean theorem relates to the distance formula because both formulas are used to get the unknown distance between Point A and Point B.
Alex Xie
9/12/2014 05:32:28 am
The Pythagorean theorem is a formula that can be used for a right triangle. The formula is a^2+b^2=c^2, where c is the hypotenuse of the right triangle and a and b are the legs. If we know two sides of a right triangle, we use it to find the third. The distance formula is just the Pythagorean theorem in the coordinate plane. The two lengths being squared under the square root symbol are just the legs and the distance that we want to find is the hypotenuse.
Aryan Borole
9/12/2014 05:54:20 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula that defines the relationship between the two legs and the hypotenuse of a right triangle. We use the Pytagorean Theorem to find a side of a right triangle when 2 of the other sides are given. Assuming A and B are legs and C is the hypotenuse, plug in values for these variables in the formula a^2+b^2=c^2. This means that if we draw a square, on each side of a right angle triangle, the area of the square on the hypotenuse is the sum of the area of the squares on the legs. The distance formula is derived using the Pythagorean Theorem by calculating the sum of the difference between x and y coordinates. The distance formula helps us find the distance between any 2 points on a coordinate plane easier than having to use a ruler and is more accurate.
Venkat Anna
9/12/2014 06:53:32 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is a formula to find the missing lengths of a right triangle. The formula is a^2+b^2=c^2, a and b being the two different lengths and c being the hypotenuse.
Anna Sivaraj
9/12/2014 08:08:36 am
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Annika
9/14/2014 11:13:21 am
The Pythagorean Theorem is Pythagoras' most famous mathematical contribution, also one of the earliest theorems known to ancient civilizations. Basically, it says that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of any right triangle is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse, a2 + b2 = c2. According to the Pythagorean Theorem, the sum of the areas of the squares A and B, is equal to the area of the square C.
Annika
9/14/2014 11:17:30 am
The distance formula is a variant of the Pythagorean theorem. Comments are closed.
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