Question

Solve for the variable using geometric mean?

Answer 1

altitude = 'geometric mean' of segments of hypotenuse

Answer 2

x = \(\sqrt{25 \times 16}\)

Answer 3

The teacher did it differently. As long as I can remember she divide that triangle into three triangles (sorry i can't remember much, im reviewing for my exam tomorrow and we did this like 4 months ago)

Answer 4

She would have done it using similar triangles.

Answer 5

yes that lol

Answer 6

But, here the q clearly asks us to use the geometric mean thingy

Answer 7

Sooo... there is no harm in using it :)

Answer 8

yes :)

Answer 9

Can you explain it to me, totally forgot how to do it using similar triangles

Answer 10

Sure :)

Answer 11

can you draw the given triangle for me :)... so we can work on it :)

Answer 12

thank you :) how many triangles do u see over there ?

Answer 13

three

Answer 14

and all 3 similar eh ?

Answer 15

if so, how do u knw they are similar ?