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mathboy
Dec 20, 2006, 05:40 PM
How do you find the height of a triangle if the base is 10 centimeters and the length of one side is 6 cm?

Capuchin
Dec 20, 2006, 05:52 PM
Erm, is it an isosceles?

If so, a bit of pythagoras will help, how can you turn your triangle into 2 identical right angled triangles? What are the lengths of the sides? How can you use pythagoras' theorem to get the result you need?

dittttka
Dec 23, 2006, 12:58 AM
Simply put you cannot solve this unless you have more information... Is it a right triangle? Use the Pythagorean Thm. If not... What's the angle (law of sines and cosines)... there is more than one way to skin a cat but you need one more piece of info before you pull out that knife.

Fianchetto
Dec 23, 2006, 02:26 PM
Simply put you cannot solve this unless you have more information...........Is it a right triangle? use the Pythagorean Thm. If not........What's the angle (law of sines and cosines)..........there is more than one way to skin a cat but you need one more piece of info b4 you pull out that knife.

Exactly - with any three pieces of information you can solve any triangle - 2 sides and an angle, two angles and a side, but three minimum. Good luck!
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