| ▲ | einpoklum an hour ago | |
That looks like "half" of the proof using a square: https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/image-files/xpythagorean-... where you draw three extra triangles, not just one, and they surround a square of c x c. Think about it as making two copies of the trapezoid, one rotated on top of the other. | ||
| ▲ | sorokod an hour ago | parent [-] | |
I shared this one with my son, the step where the 2ab expressions cancel out gave him a little aha moment. | ||