Question

Marcus drew a line from point Y to point W in the rectangle shown below. He created two identical triangles. Classfy the triangles by size of their angles and by the lengths of their sides.

Answer 1

The triangles that would be created if the rectangle has a length and width that are different is a right scalene triangle.

It will have one right angle and all three sides of the triangle will be different lengths because the hypotenuse (the diagonal will be longer than the other two sides.