Drag the red point.
Press "Define"
Drag five pieces of quadrilaterals (by their dots) to fit in the big square below.
Try to make them fit. They will.
This shows that the two upper areas equal the bottom area.
a
2
= b
2
+ c
2
Find out more about
Pythagoras and his theorem
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