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Question 3 - Figure it out - Page 50 - Chapter 2 Class 8 - The Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem (Ganita Part 2)
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Figure it out - Page 50
Class 8 (Ganita Prakash - 1, 2 & Old NCERT)
Chapter 2 Class 8 - The Baudhayana-Pythagoras Theorem (Ganita Part 2)
- Doubling a square
- Halving a square
- Hypotenuse of an Isosceles Right Triangle
- Decimal Representation of √2
- Figure it out - Page 39, 40
- Formula for Hypotenuse of an Isosceles Right Triangle
- Combining Two squares
- Baudhāyana’s Theorem on Right-angled triangles
- Pythagorean triples
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Figure it out - Page 50
- A Long-Standing Open Problem
- Further Applications of the Baudhāyana - Pythagoras Theorem
- Figure it out - Page 52, 53, 54
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Question 3 Are there primitive triples that cannot be obtained through this method? If yes, give examples.Yes, there are. The method on this page strictly produces triples where the hypotenuse is exactly 𝟏 unit larger than one of the legs (because they are 𝑛 and 𝑛−1 ). However, there are primitive triples which don’t follow this logic Example: Some examples are (8, 15, 17), (20, 99, 101), (120, 209, 241) Thus, not all primitive triples can be generated by this method
