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Can someone explain this to me??-example-1
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Answer:

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Explanation:

You want the height drawn on each triangle corresponding to the base shown.

Height

The height of a triangle is the perpendicular distance from the base to the opposite vertex. The point at which the height segment meets the base may or may not lie on the triangle.

The height segments for the two given triangles are shown in the attachment.

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Additional comment

As this problem suggests, any side of a triangle may be designated the "base."

The height segment is also called an altitude. When all three altitudes are extended until they coincide, the point at which they meet is called the "orthocenter" of the triangle.

The orthocenter of an acute triangle lies inside the triangle. For a right triangle, it lies at the right-angle vertex. For an obtuse triangle, the orthocenter is outside the triangle.

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