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What is the height of an equilateral triangle with side lengths of 14?

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So it's length would be half of the length of the base
(14)/(2) = 7 =>
7^(2) +
x^(2) =
14^(2) => 49 + = 196 => x^2 = 147 => x = sqrt 147 = 7 * sqrt 3 . So the altitude is equal to 7 * sqrt 3. An approximate value to that would be 12.12

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