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Geometry Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

An altitude of a triangle is the shortest distance from a vertex to the line containing the opposite side.

Find the side lengths of all possible right-angled triangles with perimeter $5\text{ cm}$ and shortest altitude $1\text{ cm}$ .

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