Question 67463: Please help! How do you find the altitiude of a triangle? With the two sides being 13 and the bottom being 10? Answer by 303795(602) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! As you have an isosceles triangle the centre of the base will form a 90 degree angle with the top.
You have a right angle triangle with the hypotenuse of 13 and the base will be 5 (half of 10). Find the third side of the triangle (altitude)
Think Pythagorean Theorem.
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