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Example Question #1 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
The area of an isosceles right triangle is.What is its height that is correlative and perpendicular to a side that is not the hypotenuse?
Recall that an isosceles right triangle is atriangle. That means that it looks like this:
This makes calculating the area very easy! Recall, the area of a triangle is defined as:
However, sincefor our triangle, we know:
Now, we know that.Therefore, we can write:
Solving for, we get:
This is the length of the height of the triangle for the side that is not the hypotenuse.
Example Question #2 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
What is the area of an isosceles right triangle that has an hypotenuse of length?
Based on the information given, you know that your triangle looks as follows:
这是一个triangle. Recall your standardtriangle:
You can set up the following ratio between these two figures:
Now, the area of the triangle will merely be(since both the base and the height are). For your data, this is:
Example Question #1 :How To Find The Height Of A 45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangle
Find the height of an isoceles right triangle whose hypotenuse is
To solve simply realize the hypotenuse of one of these triangles is of the formwhere s is side length. Thus, our answer is.
Example Question #4 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
The area of an isosceles right triangle is.What is its height that is correlative and perpendicular to this triangle's hypotenuse?
Recall that an isosceles right triangle is atriangle. That means that it looks like this:
This makes calculating the area very easy! Recall, the area of a triangle is defined as:
However, sincefor our triangle, we know:
Now, we know that.Therefore, we can write:
Solving for, we get:
However, be careful! Notice what the question asks: "What is its height that is correlative and perpendicular to this triangle's hypotenuse?" First, let's find the hypotenuse of the triangle. Recall your standardtriangle:
Since one of your sides is, your hypotenuse is.
Okay, what you areactuallylooking for isin the following figure:
Therefore, since you know the area, you can say:
Solving, you get:.
Example Question #1 :Isosceles Triangles
What is the area of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of?
Now, this is really your standardtriangle. Since it is a right triangle, you know that you have at least one-degree angle. The other two angles must each bedegrees, because the triangle is isosceles.
Based on the description of your triangle, you can draw the following figure:
This is derived from your reference triangle for thetriangle:
对于我们的三角形,我们可能卡尔l one of the legs.We know, then:
Thus,.
The area of your triangle is:
For your data, this is:
Example Question #1 :How To Find The Area Of A 45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangle
What is the area of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of?
Now, this is really your standardtriangle. Since it is a right triangle, you know that you have at least one-degree angle. The other two angles must each bedegrees because the triangle is isosceles.
Based on the description of your triangle, you can draw the following figure:
This is derived from your reference triangle for thetriangle:
对于我们的三角形,我们可能卡尔l one of the legs.We know, then:
Thus,.
The area of your triangle is:
For your data, this is:
Example Question #7 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
What is the area of an isosceles right triangle with a hypotenuse of?
Now, this is really your standardtriangle. Since it is a right triangle, you know that you have at least one-degree angle. The other two angles must each bedegrees because the triangle is isosceles.
Based on the description of your triangle, you can draw the following figure:
This is derived from your reference triangle for thetriangle:
对于我们的三角形,我们可能卡尔l one of the legs.We know, then:
Thus,.
The area of your triangle is:
For your data, this is:
Example Question #8 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
is a right isosceles triangle with hypotenuse.What is the area of?
Right isosceles triangles (also called "45-45-90 right triangles") are special shapes. In a plane, they are exactly half of a square, and their sides can therefore be expressed as a ratio equal to the sides of a square and the square's diagonal:
, whereis the hypotenuse.
In this case,maps to, so to find the length of a side (so we can use the triangle area formula), just divide the hypotenuse by:
So, each side of the triangle islong. Now, just follow your formula for area of a triangle:
Thus, the triangle has an area of.
Example Question #1 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
What is the perimeter of an isosceles right triangle with an hypotenuse of length?
Your right triangle is atriangle. It thus looks like this:
Now, you know that you also have a reference triangle fortriangles. This is:
This means that you can set up a ratio to find.It would be:
Your triangle thus could be drawn like this:
Now, notice that you can rationalize the denominator of:
Thus, the perimeter of your figure is:
Example Question #10 :45/45/90 Right Isosceles Triangles
What is the perimeter of an isosceles right triangle with an area of?
Recall that an isosceles right triangle is also atriangle. Your reference figure for such a shape is:
or
Now, you know that the area of a triangle is:
For this triangle, though, the base and height are the same. So it is:
Now, we have to be careful, given that our area contains.Let's use, for "side length":
Thus,.现在的基础上,参考上图,你可以easily see that your triangle is:
Therefore, your perimeter is:
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