Rebecca has a triangular piece of board. She cut it along a line parallel to the base of the triangle as shown below.

A right triangle with base 20 inches and a dotted line parallel to the base at a height of 8 inches. The height from the dotted line to the top vertex is 2 inches.

What is the length of the line along which she cut the board?

Question

Rebecca has a triangular piece of board. She cut it along a line parallel to the base of the triangle as shown below.   
  
A right triangle with base 20 inches and a dotted line parallel to the base at a height of 8 inches. The height from the dotted line to the top vertex is 2 inches. 
  
What is the length of the line along which she cut the board?

anonymous · Answer

can you get the figure of the problem?

***[isuru]*** · Answer

|dw:1379696454836:dw| is it like this ?

anonymous · Answer

@oforbis :Is the @***[ISURU]*** s picture right ???:)