When an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, the lengths of the segments of the hypotenuse are 16 and 25. What is the length of the altitude?
Answer

20

25

41

50

Question

When an altitude is drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, the lengths of the segments of the hypotenuse are 16 and 25. What is the length of the altitude?
Answer
		
20
		
25
		
41
		
50

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'a' would be the geometric mean of the left hypotenuse segment and the right hypotenuse segment.
a/25 = 16/a;  for a