Saturday, March 28, 2009

BLOG ENTRY #2

My last blog had a table with triangle sides. All of the side lengths of the longer sides were numbers with decimals. I tried to see if i could find any three combination of angles to make a triangle with side lengths that are integers. After playing around with triangles i found that there is no combination of angle measures that have all whole number sides.When i did some work i had a triangle with a 90-80-20 angle measures and the sides cam out to be .75-1.5-1.75. This information showed me that there seems to be no integer lengths in the sides of right triangle besides the two that everyone already knows. The question i now have is if there can be any angle cominations that have easy to use decimals, that could be a correct combination. My plan to find this information out is to ask my techer Ms.Sheppard-Brick that, but first im goin to continue my search to find angle combinations that work and have deciamls.

1 comment:

  1. It is okay to find patterns that are not integer lengths. It is even okay to find patterns that are not exact. I think that looking at angle combinations and trying to find decimal values.

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