SOLUTION: A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.

Question 61445: A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.
Answer by funmath(2933) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, you are trying to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle. We can use the pythagorean theorem to find that: , c=hypotenuse, a,b=legs

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