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What is the height of an equalateral traiangle with sides of 10 cm long what about for any equalateral triangle will the height always be the same as one of the sides?
8.66cm; no
If you have heard of a 30-60-90 triangle with sides in the ratio of 1 to sqrt(3) to 2, then this should be easy:
Draw an equilateral triangle with one side at the bottom. Find the middle of the base, and draw a vertical line to divide the triangle in two. (Sorry, I can't draw this!) Now suppose the length of each side of the equilateral triangle is 2 units. You have divided the base into two parts each with a length of 1.
Each smaller triangle is a right triangle with hypotenuse 2 and one side 1 unit long. the 3rd side is the altitude of the equilateral triangle, call it h. Pythagoras tells us that 12 + h2 = 22 <=> 1 + h2 = 4 <=> h2 = 4-1 = 3 <=> h = sqrt(3).
The height of an equilateral triangle is always sqrt(3) times half the length of a side. This comes out to about 0.866 times the length of a side, so if the side is 10cm long, the height will be 8.66cm.
(The height isn't the same as one of the sides, it's about 13/15 of it.)
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