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pattycake59
Mar 10, 2009, 05:07 PM
Find the altitude of an isosceles triangle with base 10 and congruent sides of length 9.

Alty
Mar 10, 2009, 05:11 PM
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KISS
Mar 10, 2009, 06:19 PM
What does isosceles mean?
What does congruent mean?
Draw the triangle?
Draw a line for the height.
Find the eqn for the height from the picture.

basilrazi
Mar 11, 2009, 02:04 AM
hint: use pythagoras theorem

c^2 = a^2 + b^2

where c is the height