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A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.
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\n" ); document.write( "If I'm understanding you correctly, you are trying to find the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle. We can use the pythagorean theorem to find that: $\"highlight%28c%5E2=a%5E2%2Bb%5E2%29\"$ , c=hypotenuse, a,b=legs
\n" ); document.write( " $\"c%5E2=6%5E2%2B8%5E2\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"c%5E2=36%2B64\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"c%5E2=100\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"sqrt%28c%5E2%29=sqrt%28100%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28c=10%29\"$
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