Please, group your sets of numbers, using { } notation or at least semicolons ( ; ). Thanks.
Looking at what I think is your first set: { sqrt(4), sqrt(5), sqrt(16) }
Square each of these and then subst. the results into the Pythagorean Theorem:
{ 4, 5, 16 } Do 4 and 5 when added together result in 16? NO.
Therefore, { sqrt(4), sqrt(5), sqrt(16) } does not produce a right triangle.
Your turn. Pick out the next 3 numbers and test them using the Pyth. Thm.
Answer:
If a, b and c are in arithmetic progression, that means that a + c = 2b. So a + b, a + c and b + c are also in arithmetic progression.
This might help.
Use the arithmetic operations to get the variable x on one side of the equation and everything else on the opposite side.
If something is being is being done to a variable, we undo that operation by using the inverse of that operation.
For example, if 10 is being added to x, we use the inverse of addition or subtraction.
18 - 7x = -20.5
We variable x is being multiplied by 7 and is subtracting 18. We need to undo all those operations.
18 - 7x = -20.5
-7x = -38.5
Now the variable is only being multiplied by -7. Reverse the operation.
-7x = -38.5
x = 5.5
So, x is equal to 5.5.
4 1/3 = 13/3 = 1/3 x 13/1 = 4 1/3
