MATHEMATICS 9

SPECIAL TRIANGLES
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OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson the learners will be able to:

1.Identify Special Triangles.

2.Understand special triangle theorems.

3.Apply the properties of Special triangles to

problems that involves special triangles.

 REVIEW!!
Find the length of the unknown side of the following triangles.

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Analyze the figure below.
SPECIAL TRIANGLES
  
• THE LEGS ARE CONGRUENT.
• HYPOTENUSE IS TIMES THE LENGTH OF
45-45- THE LEG.
90

 
• THE LENGTH OF THE HYPOTENUSE IS TWICE THE
LENGTH OF THE SHORTER LEG.
• THE LENGTH OF THE LONGER LEG IS TIMES THE
30-60- LENGTH OF THE SHORTER LEG.
90
 45°

60°
 𝑥 √2
x 2x
x

90° 45° 90° 30°

x
x 
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
EXAMPLES:

60◦
1

301
15
1

90◦
 1 1/
51 5  √ 2

90◦ 45◦
1/ 51 1
LET’S PRACTICE!!!!
OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the lesson the learners will be able to:

1.Identify Special Triangles.

2.Understand special triangle theorems.

3.Apply the properties of Special triangles to

problems that involves special triangles.

 EVALUATION!!
Apply the special triangle theorem to find the length
following segments.