Name: ________________________________________ Grade 8-Newton 01.21.

19 Score:________

ACTIVITY on HINGE THEOREM: CLOCK WISDOM

A complete revolution around a point is equivalent to 360º. The minute and hour hands of the
clock also cover that in a compete revolution.

Procedure:
1. Study the faces of the clock shown at different hours one afternoon.
2. Write also your answers to the ponder questions below.
3. Compute for the measure of the angle formed by the hands of the clock given that one
revolution for each hand is equivalent to 360°.

Clock Time Measure of angle formed by the Distance between the tips of
Face (Exact PM hour hand and minute hand the hour hand and minute
Hours ) hand (in mm)
A
B
C
D

QUESTIONS:

1. How do you describe the lengths of the hour hands of the clock faces using a relation
symbol?
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2. How do you describe the lengths of the minute hands of the clock faces using a relation
symbol?
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3. The angles formed by the hands of the clock can be called as___________.

4. In the activity, what do you observe about the measures of the angles formed by the
hands of the clock at different hours?
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5. What affects the measure of the distance between the tips of the hands of the clock?
Explain.
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6. Making a Conjecture: Your findings describe the Hinge Theorem (This is otherwise
known as SAS Triangle Inequality Theorem). How will you state this theorem if you
consider the clock hands of two faces (say, Clock Faces A and B) as sides of two
triangles and the angles they make as the included angles? State it in if-then form.

• If two sides of one triangle are congruent to two sides of another triangle, but the
included angle of the first triangle is greater than the included angle of the second,
then____________________________
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7. Using Hinge Theorem, write an if-then statement about the appropriate sides and
angles of ΔCAT and ΔDOG.

8. Is the name Hinge for this theorem suitable?

Explain.__________________________________________________
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 9. Hinge theorem characterizes many objects around us. Give examples of these objects.

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ACTIVITY on CONVERSE of HINGE THEOREM

Materials: protractor and ruler

Procedure: Study the house models and complete your copy of the activity table. Note that
the scale used in this drawing is 1 cm = 1 m.

HOUSE Roof Lengths at Roof Lengths at Length of Roof Roof Angle

the Right(in cm) the Left (in cm) Base (in cm)
A ML MN LN ∠LMN
B QP QR PR ∠PQR

1. Write your observations on the following:

• The lengths of the roofs at the left part of both houses __________.
• The lengths of the roof at the right part of both houses __________.
• The lengths of the roof bases of both houses ___________________.
• The roof angles of both houses _____________________.
2. What influences the measures of the roof angles of both houses? Justify.

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3. Making a Conjecture: Your findings describe the Converse of Hinge Theorem (This is
otherwise known as SSS Triangle Inequality Theorem). How will you state this theorem
if you consider the two corresponding roof lengths as two sides of two triangles, the
roof bases as their third sides, and the roof angles as included angles? State it in if-then
form.

If two sides of one triangle are congruent to two sides of another triangle,
but the third side of the first triangle is greater than the third side of the second,
then _____________________
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4. With both houses having equal roof lengths, what conclusion can you make about their
roof costs?

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