2007-05-20 14:59:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Yes.
2007-05-20 15:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answers above are mostly correct.
But remember, that things like "all angles must add up to 180 degress" is not always true.
Most people just forget the constraints. A triangle on a PLANE will have its angles adding up to 180. You can actually have a triangle drawn on sphere's surface which has three right angles! It can be done on the globe.
But for flat (planar) triangles, with straight line sides, all angles add upto 180 degrees. So a right triangle which has a 90 degree angle already, the other sides just need to add upto 90. you could have 89.9 and 0.1 degrees. And no the trianle doesn't have to be a lean monster. You could make the base large enough.
2007-05-20 22:52:28 · answer #2 · answered by blind_chameleon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as one angle = 90 degrees and the other 2 angles add up to 90, the triangle is a right triangle. so yes it is possible to have a 90, 80, 10 right triangle
2007-05-20 15:03:37 · answer #3 · answered by Roll a Pair 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can.
If one angle is 90 degrees, the other two angles could have any positive values, as long as they add up to 90 degrees. The sum of the angles of a triangle drawn on a plane is 180 degrees.
2007-05-20 15:05:08 · answer #4 · answered by gudspeling 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it could. But it would be an extremely long and skinny thing. I think you could even have a right triangle with a 1 degree and 89 degree angles, but it's be a lot like taking a piece of fettuccini and cutting it in half diagonally.
2007-05-20 15:08:55 · answer #5 · answered by Madame M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm guessing that you mean a 'right angle triangle' has, as it's other 2 angles, 10 and 80. And the answer is yes, it certainly can.
Ya gotta learn to use the words the way they were intended, or it gets difficult to communicate âº
Doug
2007-05-20 15:08:52 · answer #6 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can, as the sum of the angles must be 180, the right angle is 90, so any two other angles that sum to 90 can be in a right triangle.
2007-05-20 15:03:12 · answer #7 · answered by Bradley B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any triangle, not just a right triangle, has three angles that must add up to exactly 180 degrees, not more not less.
Also the exterior angles of any triangle, not just a right triangle, always add to 360 degrees.
Hope this helps.
Doug
2007-05-20 15:37:28 · answer #8 · answered by DOUGLAS M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. The only charateristics is that you have to have one 90 degree angle. The other two need to add up to 9. Other than that everything goes.
2007-05-20 15:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by Cool Nerd At Your Service 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AS LONG AS BOTH ANGLES ARE > 0
AND THEY SUM TO 90 (80+10)
EVERYTHING IS OKAY
2007-05-20 15:14:41 · answer #10 · answered by bob h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋