The Right Triangle and the Circle

Level 3 (Grade 9) It's that day of the week again! Time for another Unboring Problem of the Week! This week we will be proving the Pythagorean theorem in an unconventional way. This proof involves a circle inscribed in a right triangle, so many circle properties are used in the proof.

Link:

http://math-physics-problems.wikia.com/wiki/The_Right_Triangle_and_the_Circle

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