If you mean what is AD, which is what the problem is asking for then you can use what most books define as the angle bisector theorem which says the following: An angle bisector in a triangle divides the opposite side into two segments which are in the same proportion as the other two sides of the triangle.
In this case: I think your proportion would look like this:
. Now we need to find a way to express the two segments CD and DA... We see that AC is equal to 6, and if we let CD = x then DA will have to be 6 - x giving us the result below:
We cross multiply to get:
10(6 - x) = 8x and solving this equation we find x =
and AD would be equal to 6 -
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