SOLUTION: Please help m daughter with this question: Find the length of the median to one of the legs of an isosceles triangle with sides of lengths 8,8, and 4.
<B = 75.52 degrees
<A = 75.
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Question 222080: Please help m daughter with this question: Find the length of the median to one of the legs of an isosceles triangle with sides of lengths 8,8, and 4.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Use the special case of Stewart's Theorem for medians where 
is the side of the triangle containing the extreme point of a median:
^2+2(4)^2-(8)^2}{4}})
John
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