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What is the length of the indicated side?
?
00
8
12

What is the length of the indicated side? ? 00 8 12-example-1

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Answer:

? = 10

Explanation:

the triangle has 2 congruent sides and is therefore isosceles.

the segment from the vertex to the bas is a perpendicular bisector splitting the triangle into 2 right triangles.

Consider the right triangle on the left with legs 6 and 8 and hypotenuse ?

using Pythagoras' identity in the right triangle , then

?² = 6² + 8² = 36 + 64 = 100 ( take square root of both sides )

? =
√(100) = 10

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