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Courtesy of Cunningham, Adam, and John Ringland. 2012. Primitive Pythagorean Triples. Image/png. Wikimedia Commons, the Free Media Repository. http://bit.ly/2ndjkOu.

Courtesy of Cunningham, Adam, and John Ringland. 2012. Primitive Pythagorean Triples. Image/png. Wikimedia Commons, the Free Media Repository. http://bit.ly/2ndjkOu.

Pythagorean Triangles

March 15, 2017 by Mark Jensen in Triangles

One of the most popular triangles used in Math, Trig, and Physics problems is the 3-4-5 right triangle. To provide more variety in our problem development here are 17 alternative Pythagorean Triangles where the sides are all integers.

Labeled Pythagorean Triangle

Sample triangle with labels matching Pythagorean Triangle Table.The sides of the triangle are labeled, a and b with the hypotenuse c. The opposite angles are labeled, α, β, and ɣ.

Sample triangle with labels matching Pythagorean Triangle Table.
The sides of the triangle are labeled, a and b with the hypotenuse c. The opposite angles are labeled, α, β, and ɣ.

Table of Pythagorean Triangles

Side Length   Vertex Angles (deg)
a b c Area alpha beta gamma
3 4 5 6 36.67 53.33 90
5 12 13 30 21.77 68.23 90
7 24 25 84 16.04 73.96 90
9 40 41 180 12.03 77.97 90
11 60 61 330 9.74 80.26 90
13 84 85 546 8.02 81.98 90
33 56 65 924 29.79 60.21 90
39 80 89 1560 25.21 64.79 90
65 72 97 2340 41.83 48.17 90
8 15 17 60 27.5 62.5 90
12 35 37 210 18.33 71.67 90
16 63 65 504 13.75 76.25 90
20 99 101 990 10.89 79.11 90
20 21 29 210 42.97 47.03 90
28 45 53 630 31.51 58.49 90
36 77 85 1386 24.64 65.36 90
48 55 73 1320 40.68 49.32 90
60 91 109 2730 32.66 57.34 90

References

Butler, Douglas. 2004. “Pythagorean Triples.” TSM Resources. http://bit.ly/2m0C43t.

Weisstein, Eric W. 2010. “Pythagorean Triple.” Education. Wolfram MathWorld. August 3. http://bit.ly/2mPRRkL.

March 15, 2017 /Mark Jensen
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