document.write( "Question 250301: Carefully draw two isosceles triangles. Draw them so that each triangle has two sides of length 10 but one triangle has a third side of length 12 and the other triangle has a third side of length 16. Which of these two triangles has the largest area? Please show your work. \n" ); document.write( "

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The triangle with base 12 has a height of 8.
\n" ); document.write( "and each half of the isosceles triangle is a right triangle of sides 10, 6 and 8
\n" ); document.write( "1/2 bh=1/2*12*8=1/2*4*3*2*4
\n" ); document.write( "The triangle with base 16 has a height of 6.
\n" ); document.write( "and each half of the isosceles triangle is a right triangle of sides 10, 6 and 8
\n" ); document.write( "1/2 bh=1/2*16*6=1/2*4*4*3*2
\n" ); document.write( "They are equal in area
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