SOLUTION: Square ABCD has side length 12cm.
What is the length of congruent
segments BX, CX, and EX?
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Question 1178913: Square ABCD has side length 12cm.
What is the length of congruent
segments BX, CX, and EX?
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Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Extend segment EX to meet BC at Y.
By symmetry, Y bisects BC, so CY=6.
Let x be the length of congruent segments BX, CX, and EX; then XY=12-x.
Use the Pythagorean Theorem on triangle CYX to get an equation that is easily solved for x, which is what the problem asks you to find.
I leave the work to you.
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