SOLUTION: The three medians of right triangle ABC intersect at G as shown. Given than AC = 8, AB = 15, what is CG?

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Question 1195770: The three medians of right triangle ABC intersect at G as shown. Given than AC = 8, AB = 15, what is CG?
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The median CF is the hypotenuse of the right triangle ACF; therefore

    |CF| =  =  =  = .


About the medians of any triangle, the widely known fact is that they intersect in one common point and
this intersection point divides each median in proportion 2:1, counting from the vertex of the triangle.


THEREFORE,  |CG| =  = 7.311, rounded with 3 decimal places.    ANSWER

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