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The interior angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. If you make one angle bigger, another angle will become smaller: The exterior angles of a triangle always add up to 360 degrees: In every triangle, the shortest side is always opposite the smallest interior angle. The longest side is always opposite the largest interior angle. âOppositeâ means that the side does not touch the point of the angle on either end. Equilateral triangles must have three angles of 60 degrees each, and all triangles with three 60 degree angles are equilateral.
We start with a right triangle. A right triangle is a three sided figure with one angle equal to 90 degrees. A 90 degree angle is called a right angle and that is where the right triangle gets its name. We define the side of the triangle opposite from the right angle to be the hypotenuse, h. It is the longest side of the three sides of the right triangle. The word hypotenuse comes from two Greek words meaning to stretch, since this is the longest side. We are going to label the other two sides a and b. The Pythagorean Theorem is a statement relating the lengths of the sides of any right triangle.