Question

GEOMETRY: The altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle divides the hypotenuse into segments 6 in. and 10 in. long. Find the length being h of the altitude.

Answer 1

Are you given any other information? It's nearly impossible to find anything given only that information.

Answer 2

i cant understand the problem as stated either ...

Answer 3

that's it, it has to do with similarity of right triangles.

Answer 4

maybe i forgot what an altitude was...

Answer 5

altitude is the height of the triangle

Answer 6

thats what i thought... how does the height of the triangle divide its hypotenuse?

Answer 7

i don't know, we are learning about similarities in right triangles

Answer 8

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