Monday, March 30, 2009

Geometry Blog 3

For geometry I investigated the question, " If you know the sidelengths of a right triangle can you predict the angle measurements"In the beginning I believed that you could only know the size of theangles not the exact measurement. But, I later found that you couldpredict the measurements of the angles. However, it depends on howyour information is set up. This table is what I used to gather myinformation.

Side 1HypotenuseSide 2Angle BAngle AAngle C
122902763
233901872
344901476
455901179
56690981
67790882
78890783
89990684
9101090684
10111190585


Based off of this I shall conclude by saying this last statement. If you know the side lengths of a right triangle you can predict the angle measurements depending on how you gather your information. For example: If I know the side lengths are 1,2 and 2.236067977499789 in a fright triangle then i predict that the angle measurements will be 90, 26 and 64. This is known because the side measurements are in chronological order. And this is the pattern that I have found.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Geometry Blog 2

1

2.236067977499789

2

90

26.56505117707799

63.43494882292201

2

3.1622776601683777

3

90

18.434948822922017

71.56505117707802

3

4.123105625617659

4

90

14.036243467926484

75.96375653207355

4

5.099019513592783

5

90

11.309932474020227

78.6900675297981

5

6.082762530298218

6

90

9.462322208025613

80.53767779197437

6

7.071067811865473

7

90

8.130102354156005

81.869897645844

7

8.062257748298547

8

90

7.125016348901757

82.87498365109819

8

9.055385138137414

9

90

6.340191745909908

83.6598082540901

9

10.049875621120886

10

90

5.710593137499633

84.28940686250034

10

11.045361017187258

11

90

5.1944289077347285

84.8055710922652














This table here as helped me with my investigation of the question, "If you know the side lengths of a right triangle, can you predict what the angles will be?" From this table I have found out that the hypotenuse/Side BC is always a little bit more than Side AB. And Angle C always increases or decreases also depending on the length of Side AB.
On the other hand, it depends on the way that you collect your information. For example, I put sides AB, and AC are in chronoligical order. Which may decide the pattern you find.



Monday, March 23, 2009

Geometry Blog1

"Hello. This blog is for a project in my geometry class called, The Triangle Blog project. We have to do a series of investigations about right triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem(a2+b2=c2)and blog our results here."-PKOW!ian



The question that I am investigating is:

"If you know the side lengths of a right triangle, can you predict what the angles will be?"

We(in geometry class) have been investigating this question for the past 2 or 3 days and the steps we/I have followed consist of many different websites. However, the specific website that I used was<http://www.members.shaw.ca/ron.blond/SimilarTriangles.APPLET/index.html>


This helped me with my pre-conclusion. I believe that you may be able to find out the range of the angles and how to put them in chronological order. However, I don't think that it's possible to find the exact measure of the unknown angles within a right triangle.