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Triangles: Acute, Right, and Obtuse
Drag the orange vertex to reshape the triangle.
A triangle is:
acute
if all of its angles are less than 90°;
right
if one of its angles is 90°;
obtuse
if one of its angles is greater than 90°.
Contributed by:
Jay Warendorff
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