SOLUTION: There is a 30-60-90 triangle. It is divided into three segments length wise. The leftmost length, where I need to find "H" the height of the right triangle is unknown, but the hypo

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Question 981595: There is a 30-60-90 triangle. It is divided into three segments length wise. The leftmost length, where I need to find "H" the height of the right triangle is unknown, but the hypotenuse has a segment of 50, before the middle segment with a height of 30 and a length of 40. How do I find H?

*visual representation:
50/|
/ |
/| |
/ | |H
/| | |
/ | | |
30X40 (for center segment, 30 being the height of the left line of the segment, 40 being the length of the center segment)

Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Try posting this question again but improved. After rechecking it throughout the day, I still can not follow your description. Can you either make a more precise description of where each point and segment is, and label or describe how each element is to be labeled; or give the features of the triangle with cartesian coordinate for the description; or supply a photocopy or manually drawn figure?

Maybe my mind is dense for your written help request, but no other tutor has yet taken this question today.