What are your thoughts?Any help on this question would be much appreciated!
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Where are you stuck? You noted that, since these triangles are nested, obviously they're similar; you noted that the larger triangle has height ON and base 10 + 40 = 50; you noted that, with the height 24 and base 40 of the smaller triangle, you had sufficient information to create the similar-triangles proportion; you set it up and... then what?Any help on this question would be much appreciated!Code:O * \ | | \ |24| \ | | \ | | \ |10| 40 \ *--*----------------* N P
After calculating ON, using similar triangle - invoke Pythagorus to calculate OP (you'll get an irrational number as answer).Any help on this question would be much appreciated!
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