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Question 1110456: An equilateral triangle has a side length of 10 inches. What is the length of the triangle's altitude.
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
An equilateral triangle has a side length of 10 inches. What is the length of the triangle's altitude.
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Draw the triangle.
Draw an altitude from any vertex
---> a right triangle with hyp = 10 and one side = 5

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