Help please...I'm having a brain fart

[ChiRen]

Okay, I cannot remember for the life of me how to find the height of a right triangle. I am assuming it is just finding the length of the perpendicular side, but how?
I know two of the sides, but I don't know the other. Help! lol

[Tonya]

It's been to long since I've been in school. I don't remember. I'll ask my husband when he comes back. He uses math at work, so he remembers all that stuff.

[ChiRen]

I really hate math.
I need the formula for a Lab Report I need to do for my science class. Yuck.

[ChiRen]

Ah, nevermind...
I just made a way up, lol.
I don't even care. haha

[CatDad]

If you still want to know you would modify the Pythagorean theorem.

I can't really make mathimatical symbols here, but it is a sqaured plus b squared = C squared.

So the height is generally referd to as b. That being the case you need to solve for that.

The formula would be:
b = the square root of( a squared minus c squared)

It is really hard to write out if you can't use the proper symbols.

Here is a link to a page that will give you the proper formula:
http://www.webmath.com/cgi/rtri.cgi?c=5&e=&b=%3F&d=&a=4

I hope that helps.

[catnapper]

Originally posted by CatDad
If you still want to know you would modify the Pythagorean theorem.

I can't really make mathimatical symbols here, but it is a sqaured plus b squared = C squared.

So the height is generally referd to as b. That being the case you need to solve for that.

The formula would be:
b = the square root of( a squared minus c squared)

It is really had to write out if you can use the proper symbols.

Here is a link to a page that will give you the proper formula:
http://www.webmath.com/cgi/rtri.cgi?c=5&e=&b=%3F&d=&a=4

I hope that helps.

Showoff!!!
Of course you'd know that one! Thank goodness I have absolutely no use for that information in my life - and better yet - nobody has asked me that!!!

[CatDad]

Originally posted by catnapper
Showoff!!!
Of course you'd know that one! Thank goodness I have absolutely no use for that information in my life - and better yet - nobody has asked me that!!!

LOL!!

Actually believe it or not I have actually had to use some of those functions after I got out of school. I have not had to use them for years, but they did come in handy.

Now, I did have to refresh my memory in order to answer it. I hope that makes you feel a little better.

[ChiRen]

Ah thank you so much!
Believe or not, that is the formula I made up!! lol
Thanks for reaffirming it for me though!

[popcornbird]

If I understood you correctly, this is how you do it.

I love math. Excuse my *mouse-writing*..........he he he

[popcornbird]

*bumpie*

[Kfamr]

I believe she already figured it out :P ::

Originally posted by ChiRen
Ah thank you so much!
Believe or not, that is the formula I made up!! lol
Thanks for reaffirming it for me though!

[ChiRen]

Yes, I did...thanks for clearing it up Kay.

Popcornbird, thank you though.
That's exactly how I did it. See? I'm not that dumb.

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by ChiRen
Yes, I did...thanks for clearing it up Kay.

Popcornbird, thank you though.
That's exactly how I did it. See? I'm not that dumb.

LOL! Of course you aren't! We all have brain-farts at times. I didn't see that you figured it out. Shows that my mind is completely elsewhere today.

[ChiRen]

It's okay, Pops.
Want me to help you get it back?

[2kitties]

wooohoo popcorn with the visual aids
*kisses to the brainy one*