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David's copy of Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle
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Some clever variable-substitution trickery to randomly pick two sides of a right-angled triangle to give to a student, and ask for the other.
The sides are set up so they're always Pythagorean triples, and the opposite side is always odd.
As ever, most of the tricky stuff is in the advice.
Because this was created quickly to show how to set up the randomisation, there's no diagram. It would benefit greatly from a diagram.
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Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle
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Christian Lawson-Perfect
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England schools
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England university
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Scotland schools
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David Wishart 7 years, 9 months ago
Created this as a copy of Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle.Name | Status | Author | Last Modified | |
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Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle | Ready to use | Christian Lawson-Perfect | 09/12/2019 10:36 | |
David's copy of Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle | draft | David Wishart | 20/07/2017 13:52 | |
Lovkush's copy of Randomly give two of hypotenuse, opposite, and adjacent side of a triangle | draft | Lovkush Agarwal | 20/07/2017 14:54 |
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Name | Type | Generated Value |
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opposite | integer |
5
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adjacent | number |
12
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hypotenuse | number |
13
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sides | dict |
Dictionary with 3 entries
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missing | string |
adjacent side
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first_given | string |
opposite side
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second_given | string |
hypotenuse
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signs | dict |
Dictionary with 3 entries
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Generated value: integer
5
This variable doesn't seem to be used anywhere.
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