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document.write( "The length of a triangle are as follows:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "height is 8 feet, base across is 12 feet, what is the lenght of the triangle?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "It looks like an isoceles triangle.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Answer:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "a=base<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b=?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "h=height\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "h=sqrt(b^2-1/4a^2)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8=sqrt(b^2-1/4(12^2)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8=sqrt(b^2-1/4(144)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8=sqrt(b^2-36)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8=b-6<BR>\n" );
document.write( "14=b<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Please confirm if my answer is ccorrect?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thanks a bunch </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "It looks like an isoceles triangle.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Find the length via the Pythagorean theorem where<BR>\n" );
document.write( "length of triangle is the hypotenuse<BR>\n" );
document.write( "height is one side<BR>\n" );
document.write( "half the base is the other side<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let x = length of triangle<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8^2 + 6^2 = x^2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "64 + 36 = x^2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "100 = x^2<BR>\n" );
document.write( "sqrt(100) = x<BR>\n" );
document.write( "{-10, 10} = x<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Throw out negative answer:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "10 feet =x<BR>\n" );
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