Question

The height of an equilateral triangle is 46 inches.


What is the approximate length s of the triangle's side?
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Answer 1

if you cut any equilateral triangle in half like that, you get 2 congruent 30-60-90 triangles

Answer 2

So it's 23?

Answer 3

not quite

Answer 4

here is an equilateral triangle

Answer 5

cut it in half to get two congruent 30-60-90 triangles

Answer 6

I think the answer is 53, then.

Answer 7

the height is 46, so we know

Answer 8

basically we have this

Answer 9

we want to find the value of y in the drawing