Problem:
Given a triangle with sides , and , let be the foot of the altitude relative to side , the midpoint of and the midpoint of . What is the length of ?
Problem:
Given a triangle with sides , and , let be the foot of the altitude relative to side , the midpoint of and the midpoint of . What is the length of ?
Pick one
Solution:
The answer is (C). Triangle is right-angled, so we have because is the median relative to the hypotenuse. Setting we have and, by the Pythagorean theorem, , that is , from which we obtain . We then have
so .