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Geometry Essentials: Right Triangles

The document contains geometry problems involving right triangles, hypotenuses, building heights, and ornament areas. It asks to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of lengths 6 and 8. It asks to show that a triangle with sides of 5, 3, and 4 is a right triangle and identify its hypotenuse. It also asks how far a person could see from the top of the Taipei 101 tower and how much copper is needed for an ornament made of a semicircle atop a triangle with heights of 5 cm and base of 3 cm.

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Geometry Essentials: Right Triangles

The document contains geometry problems involving right triangles, hypotenuses, building heights, and ornament areas. It asks to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs of lengths 6 and 8. It asks to show that a triangle with sides of 5, 3, and 4 is a right triangle and identify its hypotenuse. It also asks how far a person could see from the top of the Taipei 101 tower and how much copper is needed for an ornament made of a semicircle atop a triangle with heights of 5 cm and base of 3 cm.

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Section R.

3 Geometry Essentials

OBJECTIVE 1

In a right triangle, one leg has a length 6 and the other has length 8. What is the length of the hypotenuse?

Show that a triangle whose sides are of lengths 5, 3, and 4 is a right triangle. Identify the hypotenuse.

Excluding antenna, the tallest inhabited building in the world is Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan. If the indoor observation deck is 1437 feet above ground level, how far can a person standing on the observation deck see (with the aid of a telescope)? Use 3960 miles for the radius of Earth.

OBJECTIVE 2

A Christmas tree ornament is in the shape of a semicircle on top of a triangle. How many square centimeters of copper is required to make the ornament if the height of the triangle is 5 cm and the base is 3 cm?

OBJECTIVE 3

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