document.write( "Question 1107310: The area of a triangle with base 24 cm is trisected by two segments parallel to the base. What is the length of the longer of these segments? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Since the area of the original triangle was trisected, you have\r\n" );
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document.write( "    - the smallest triangle of the area of , where S is the area of the original triangle,  and\r\n" );
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document.write( "    - the middle triangle with the area of .\r\n" );
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document.write( "The three triangles are similar.  The ratio of the areas of the middle to the original is .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hence, the ratio of their linear elements is  .\r\n" );
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document.write( "It means that the length under the question is    cm.\r\n" );
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