2. Garfield’s Proof

3. of the Garfield’s Proof

4. Pie- thagorean Theorem Garfield’s Proof of the

5. Garfield’s Proof of the Pie- thagorean Theorem

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9. Garfield’s Proof of the Py thagorean Theorem (President)

10. Garfield’s Proof of the Py thagorean Theorem (President)

11. See Garfield eat Pie A Garfield The Cat’s Proof

12. President Garfield’s Proof: Examine these three triangles. a b a b c c c c Their area is

13. See Garfield eat Pie A See Garfield eat Pie B

14. ab a b c c The President’s great idea was to construct a trapezoid using these three triangles. The area formula for a trapezoid is: In this case, we get:

15. See me squared! This is Dr. Mena’s class, so we’ve got One Dead Cat xx

16. Then President Garfield noticed something astonishing!!

17. Thanks to Jim Davis for creating the incredibly humorous cat Video Clips/Sounds stolen liberally from http://www.garfield.comhttp://www.garfield.com And for those of you who thought I left someone important out … Thanks to Mrs. Garfield for creating the not-so-humorous but definitely smart president Production by Dead Cat Studios In conjunction with Too Much Time, Uninc.