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Question 937835: Looking for help to solve the following geometry problem. One side of a triangle is 18 cm. Inside the triangle, a segment is drawn parallel to the 18 cm side, forming a trapezoid whose area is 1/3 that of the original triangle. Find the length of this segment. Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The segment splits the original triangle into two pieces:
a trapezoid and a smaller top triangle. is the scaling factor between the two triangles because the area of the top triangle is of the area of the original triangle. ---> (rounded) (rounded) (rounded)
