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The area of triangle ABC is 50 square units. What is the length of CD?

The area of triangle ABC is 50 square units. What is the length of CD?-example-1
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The triangle spilts into two 45-45-90 triangle. Because of that, the short leg and long leg with be the same length. It gives the hypotenuse, 10. Divided 10 by √2 which is 5 √2. The length of CD is 5 √2
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