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How to find the height of a 30-60-90 triangle with hypotenuse = 8, and base = 8sqrt.3. Please help find answer fast!

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for a 30-60-90 triangle
if the shorter leg (oposite 30 degrees) is x then the other leg is x√3 and the hyptonuse is 2x

so
hyptonuse=8
8=2x
4=x

longer leg is 4√3, yep
so shorter leg or height will be 4 units
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