Question

When an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, the lengths of the segments of the hypotenuse are 16 and 64. What is the length of the altitude?

Answer 1

Remember this thm:
Alt to hyp -> alt = geomean b/w parts of hyp.
Be definition of geomean then,
16/alt = alt/64
alt * alt = 16*64
Squareroot of both sides,
alt = 32

Answer 2

A.4
B. 8
C. 16
D. 32