SOLUTION: A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.

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Question 61445: A right triangle has legs of lengths 6 and 8. the altitude to the hypotenuse has length BLANK.
Answer by funmath(2933) About Me  (Show Source):
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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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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
c%5E2=6%5E2%2B8%5E2
c%5E2=36%2B64
c%5E2=100
sqrt%28c%5E2%29=sqrt%28100%29
highlight%28c=10%29
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Happy Calculating!!!