Question 1 • MISD-Geometry-RECOVERY-B-2019-2020
A triangle is a right triangle when the squares of its two shorter sides add to the square of its longest side. For the sail, 12² + 16² = 144 + 256 = 400, and 20² = 400, so it is a right triangle. The other listed lengths do not establish a right triangle; the window-frame diagonal is missing its measurement.
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