Question

MEDAL!!!


In parallelogram ABCD above, if sides AB and AD have lengths as shown, that is the length of the altitude to side AD?

(Figure will be drawn below)

Answer 1

@phi

Answer 2

@peachpi @zepdrix

Answer 3

what do you mean by "that is the length of the altitude to side AD" in the first place?

Answer 4

i don't know what that exactly means... or else i wouldn't have asked this question :\

Answer 5

dont you mean like how high above ground level is the parallelogram?

Answer 6

or something like that?

Answer 7

maybe ( or are you referencing the height)?

Answer 8

altitude is a reference to how high above or how low below ground/sea level

Answer 9

great, i just figured it out and i hate it

Answer 10

are you in trig rn?

Answer 11

@calculusxy
i think i figured it out if you werent paying attention

Answer 12

no i don't know trig very well, but i can work with sine, cosine, tangent (only the basics)

Answer 13

thats what this is

Answer 14

line BC is going to be ground level for this

Answer 15

i don't quite understand what you mean

Answer 16

if i remember right your going to use cosine to find the distance from line BC to line AD, giving you your answer (its either cosine or sine, i dont remember them that well)

Answer 17

@surjithayer Can you plz explain this to me more?

Answer 18

thx show off

Answer 19

basically multiply the sine of 60 degrees by 12 to get your answer

Answer 20

h is altitude

Answer 21

\[\sin 60=\frac{ \sqrt{3} }{ 2 }\]

Answer 22

i just said everything he put up there in a nice sentence without any complication

Answer 23

and how do i evaluate that @surjithayer

Answer 24

\[h=12 \sin 60=12*\frac{ \sqrt{3} }{ 2 }=6\sqrt{3}\]

Answer 25

i like how i always start it then someone else comes in and takes all the fricken credit that i actually did before they did -_-

Answer 26

oh okay ! but is there any simper way of doing it?

Answer 27

and the perfect example is the one above

Answer 28

That's about the easiest way to do it with the given information.

Answer 29

thx for saying i had no idea what im doing and that a person that does the exact same thing makes complete sense, can someone explain that one to me >:(

Answer 30

i seriously think that letting someone finish there answer and explanation should be on the CoC