SOLUTION: please help me solve: the side length of an equilateral triangles is five inches. find the length of the altitude of the triangle.
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Question 957772: please help me solve: the side length of an equilateral triangles is five inches. find the length of the altitude of the triangle.
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The altitude goes from the midpoint of one side to the opposite vertex and forms a right triangle with one side as hypotenuse and one half of one side as a leg.
Let a=length of a side; h=height(altitude)
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