You're locked out of your house and the only open window is on the second floor, 25 feet above the ground. You need to borrow a ladder from one of your neighbors. There's a bush along the edge of the ...

Quotes from Dr. Mursell's book "Streamline Your Mind." He is the kind of man who would use the theorem of Pythagoras in place of a ladder. By this he means that if a man wanted to ascertain how much ...

If the sides of the right-angled triangle are labelled 𝑎, 𝑏 and 𝑐 then Pythagoras' theorem can be written as the formula 𝑎² + 𝑏² = 𝑐². Pythagoras' theorem can be used to find the length of line ...