CPM Homework Help : ACC7 Problem 9-57

Jenna is working with three squares. Their areas are $16 \text{ cm}^{2}, 9 \text{ cm}^{2}$ , and $36 \text{ cm}^{2}$ . She thinks they will make an obtuse triangle. Do you agree? Explain your reasoning.

Hint:

What are the values of the sides of each square?

More Help 2:

Try to predict what kind of triangle can be made from the squares below.

Largest Square, with area of 36 on the left, with smallest square with area of 9 on right, and middle sized square, with area of 16, above the smallest square.

More Help 1:

The sides of the squares are $4$ cm, $3$ cm, and $6$ cm.
These values make up the values of the sides of the triangle.

More Help 3:

What kind of triangle do these squares make?

The smallest and middle sized squares from the previous image, are slanted, so one vertex from each square, touches a vertex on the same side of the large square, & the 2 squares share a vertex, so that the 3 sides, 1 from each square, become the perimeter of a triangle.