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Before James Garfield was elected president of the United States, he discovered a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. He formed a trapezoid like the one that follows and found the area of the trapezoid in two ways. Why is the isosceles triangle with sides c a right triangle? Use the drawing to complete the proof. 

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