14. Construct a Triangle Given the Length of the Altitude to the Base, a Base Angle and the Sum of the Lengths of the Other Two Sides

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This Demonstration shows a construction of a triangle given the sum of the lengths of the sides and , the angle at and the length of the altitude from to the base .

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Construction

Step 1: Draw a horizontal ray from and a ray from at angle from . On , measure out a point at distance from and a point at distance from .

Then either of the two triangles or is a solution.

Verification

Consider the triangle . Since , the first condition is satisfied.

Since the distance of to is by construction, the length of the altitude from to the base is .

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Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (August 2017)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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