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Is this a right triangle?

anonymous · Answer

If so, find the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse.

anonymous · Answer

How do you find out if it's a right angle?

anonymous · Answer

Oh, right. Sorry. What does it mean by the altitude?

anonymous · Answer

I'm still a bit confused.

anonymous · Answer

What the altitude is and how to find it.

directrix · Answer

Use the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem to determine if the given triangle is right.

If the square of the longest side = the sum of the squares of the other two sides, then the triangle is right.

anonymous · Answer

Oh thanks, now I remember the chart you gave me to use last time!

anonymous · Answer

but what is an altitude in a triangle? I feel somewhat dumb to be asking this, but I just don't know what the altitude is..

anonymous · Answer

I'm just asking what the altitude is because it asks for the altitude. "Tell whether the triangle is a right triangle. If so, find the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse. Leave your answer in simplified radical form."

directrix · Answer

[ 2√ 85] ^2 = 12^2 + 14^2  ?

Is 340 = to 144 + 196 ?

Yes. So, the given triangle is right.

directrix · Answer

The altitude is drawn from the vertex of the right angle PERPENDICULAR to the hypotenuse.

anonymous · Answer

Can you help me how to find it?

directrix · Answer

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