Your teacher will give your group a sheet with 4 figures. Cut out the 5 shapes in Figure 1.
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Arrange the 5 cut out shapes to fit inside Figure 2.
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Now arrange the shapes to fit inside Figure 3.
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Check to see that Figure 3 is congruent to the large square in Figure 4.
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Check to see that the 5 cut out shapes fit inside the two smaller squares in Figure 4.
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If the right triangle in Figure 4 has legs
and and hypotenuse , what have you just demonstrated to be true?