Question

An equilateral triangle has an altitude of 9 square root 3. What are lengths of sides and what is area? thanks!

Answer 1

if its an equilateral triangle why is one side 1 and the other .5? and what does x stand for?

Answer 2

altitude is 9 to the square root of 3 not just 9

Answer 3

yeah, it's 9sqrt(3), sorry..

Answer 4

the idea is to get the similar triangle from the equilateral with sides of length 1

Answer 5

just working with proportion

Answer 6

if you find the factor for the altitude you can use it for the other values to calculate the area

Answer 7

[some lag here] let me do it again