SOLUTION: What is the height of an equilateral triangle with sides that are 12 cm long?

SOLUTION: What is the height of an equilateral triangle with sides that are 12 cm long?

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Question 942020: What is the height of an equilateral triangle with sides that are 12 cm long?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use 1 side as the hypotenuse and 1/2 of another side as the leg of a right triangle.
The other leg of that triangle will be the height.
Using the Pythagorean theorem,

or formulaically,
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