SOLUTION: Help! Consider a triangle with side lengths a=3, b=4. and c=6. Can it be a right triangle? What are the measures, to the nearest degree, of the three angles?

Question 1005028: Help!
Consider a triangle with side lengths a=3, b=4. and c=6. Can it be a right triangle? What are the measures, to the nearest degree, of the three angles?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the longest side as a hypotenuse to test in the Pythagorean Theorem formula. Does the formula give a true statement or a false statement?

You will want to use Law Of Cosines to find the three angle measures.
, which you apply appropriately for all three angles of your triangle.

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