Question

Geometry help please! "A median of an equilateral triangle is 2 root 3 / 3 inches long. What is the length of each side of the equilateral triangle?

Answer 1

@Isaiah.Feynman

Answer 2

Okay.

Answer 3

If you have an equilateral triangle, they have a certain property. If they have sides "a" then the median is

Answer 4

Hmm ok..

Answer 5

Still kinda confused..

Answer 6

It says whatever the length of the median is, the sides are just two times the number infront of the root 3.

Answer 7

See in my example, the length of the other sides is just 2(a/2) which gives you a.

Answer 8

So the sides = 4?

Answer 9

You mean for your question?

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

or would the sides = 2

Answer 12

They would be 2(2/3) which is 4/3.

Answer 13

ohh ok i see

Answer 14

I divided the 2 by a/ 2 but i see now cool thanks alot

Answer 15

There is a way to understand this. If you take an equilateral and cut it into half... you will see that that the median is always root3 times half the base.