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How do I find the altitudes of a right scalene triangle

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since it is a right triangle, the two legs are two altitudes. the third altitude is a line segment from the right angle vertex perpendicular to the hypotenuse,
the three altitudes meet at the right angle vertex, so the right angle vertex is the orthocenter.
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