SOLUTION: how is a triangle with sides of 3 miles, 6 miles, and 8 miles not a right triangle ?

SOLUTION: how is a triangle with sides of 3 miles, 6 miles, and 8 miles not a right triangle ?

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Question 362890: how is a triangle with sides of 3 miles, 6 miles, and 8 miles not a right triangle ?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If it's a triangle, it must follow the Pythagorean theorem,

Since it obviously doesn't, it's not a right triangle.

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