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Thank you We speak thirty sixty ninety triangles Ala gramma

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steve and competent is in charge of manufacturing triangles at

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triangles unlimited Recently steve received the following work order five

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hundred right triangles various sizes by five o'clock tomorrow Please

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include all measurements of side links Steve went right to

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work on Lee realised hours later that he mis read

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the work order and had been making equal lateral triangles

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rather than right triangles By the time he caught his

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mistake he had two hundred fifty useless people Lateral playing

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on the factory floor How would he ever be able

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to make in measure five hundred right triangles in time

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steve suddenly realized that if he split all the equal

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lateral triangles exactly in half you'd have twice a cz

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many triangles And they'd all be right Triangles with one

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angle of sixty degrees one angle of forty degrees and

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one angle of ninety degrees It was the most brilliant

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idea steve had ever had in his entire life Steve

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was so busy celebrating that he completely forgot He was

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also supposed to include the measurements Remember even if the

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size is air different every right triangle has the same

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angles Thirty sixty and ninety degrees Let's Look back at

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that original equal lateral triangle A pot News of the

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right triangle Is one of the original sides of the

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equal lateral triangle let's Assign it The variable x the

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side facing the thirty degree angle is always half of

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one of the original sides that's x divided by two

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that leaves the side facing the sixty degree angle Steve

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may not have enough time to use the pythagorean theorem

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for two hundred fifty separate triangles but he can certainly

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is it just once we confined the length of the

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side here which would be rude three acts over too

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Turns out that this is the relationship between the side

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lengths of every thirty sixty ninety triangle where x is

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the length of my pot news But steve if you

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get fired over this whole thing anyway we hear there's 00:02:09.245 --> [endTime] an opening at circles express

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