Triangle question Help

Murray

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Any help on this question would be much appreciated!


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*  \
|  |  \
|24|     \
|  |        \
|  |           \
|10|     40       \
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N                    P
Any help on this question would be much appreciated!
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?

Please be complete. Thank you! ;)
 
Any help on this question would be much appreciated!


Thanks
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After calculating ON, using similar triangle - invoke Pythagorus to calculate OP (you'll get an irrational number as answer).
 
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