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OpenStudy (aaronandyson):

A right angle triangle has hypotenuse equal to 10 and an altitude to the hypotenuse equal to 6. What is the area of the triangle?

jabez177 (jabez177):

Alright.. .Doesn't this have something to do with the Pythagorean theorem?

OpenStudy (bamboo888):

I don't think so because it gives you \[c ^{2}\] but not a or b squared.

jabez177 (jabez177):

So then we divide

jabez177 (jabez177):

okay um let me get my drawing tool out

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