SOLUTION: If one long side of a triangle is 10 and the short side is 6, what is the base and how do you find it?
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Question 774558: If one long side of a triangle is 10 and the short side is 6, what is the base and how do you find it?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Length of leg and short side is not enough to find length of base. You CAN find it if this is a right-triangle. In that case, long side is the hypotenuse, and then the base and short side each are legs of the right-triangle. The case allows you to say , and you can find b.
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