Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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Exercise 1 Page 646

What do the markers on the sides indicate?

Acute isosceles triangle

Practice makes perfect

Let's analyze the given triangle.

To classify the triangle by its sides, we need to know how many sides are congruent.

Type Sides
Scalene No congruent sides
Isosceles At least congruent sides
Equilateral congruent sides

Note that there are markers on two sides. They indicate that these sides are congruent. Knowing this, the triangle is isosceles. Now let's look at the angles.

Type Angles
Acute acute angles
Right right angle
Obtuse obtuse angle
Equiangular congruent angles

We can see that all three angles are acute. This allows us to classify the triangle as an acute triangle. Therefore, the given triangle is an acute isosceles triangle.