by DaleCallahan | May 17, 2013 | Geometry
Question from Emilio, In Geometry Chapter 10, Lesson 3, Set 1, Pblms 7 – 12, I don’t understand what they are trying to teach comparing Descartes to the Side-Splitter Theorem. What I am supposed to learn from this set of problems? Answer: Do not get...
by DaleCallahan | May 16, 2013 | Geometry, Geometry Chapter 3
Question from Mary: Geometry Chapter 3 Lesson 4 Numbers 19-23. Help please? Answer from Cassidy Cash: Let’s start at the top. #19) This one is 45 degrees, because it is half of 90. You are right that half of 360 is 180, and you are also right that the figure is a...
by DaleCallahan | May 16, 2013 | Geometry, Geometry Chapter 3
Question from Amy: Geometry Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Number 47 Answer from Cassidy Cash: For Number 47 you are basically copying the proof on page 86 of the text, but replacing some of the values to account for the change in inequalities. If you look at the number...
by DaleCallahan | May 16, 2013 | Geometry, Geometry Chapter 2
Question from John: Chapter 2, Lesson 6, Number 9 Why does the demonstration not prove the case? Answer from Cassidy Cash: The issue is that in number 9 he has proved a SINGLE CASE, not all cases. If I tried to prove to you that the sun is “Always” to the...
by DaleCallahan | May 16, 2013 | Geometry, Geometry Chapter 1
Question from Stacy: Chapter 1, Lesson 3, pg. 23, Set III, How to get an equilateral triangle by rearranging the polygons you cut out from the figure. (Number 5 in this set). Answer from Cassidy Cash: Shown on the left is the original shape as shown in the...
