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Re: Is there an equilateral triangle with a solid height and side side length?

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30 Jul 2011 11:36 PM
Well?

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30 Jul 2011 11:41 PM
ummmm

elaborate?
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30 Jul 2011 11:42 PM
Is there an equilatera triangle that has both a height and side length divisible by 1, or at least 0.4?

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30 Jul 2011 11:48 PM
Divisible by one?
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31 Jul 2011 02:06 PM
Yes, evenly divisible by one.

For instance, 5, 4, 3, 9001 NOT 9001.123432345432

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31 Jul 2011 03:04 PM
Lemme think about this.

Let's call its side length x. We drop a perpendicular. This gives us two isosceles 30-60-90 triangles with short size x/2, long side is the height, and hypotenuse x.

A well known fact about the 30-60-90 triangle is that the sides are in the ratio 1 : root(3) : 2. Apply this to our triangle, we get x/2 : xroot(3)/2 : x.

Therefore: If the side length = x, the height = x/2 times the square root of 3.

The ratio of side length : height = 1 : root(3) / 2, or 2 : root(3). Since one number is an integer and the other is irrational, it is impossible to find any two integers to fit this ratio.

tl;dr: no.
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31 Jul 2011 03:18 PM
I thought so, thanks.
(I had to find the area of a regular hexagon in seventh grade with only the side length once)

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31 Jul 2011 03:21 PM
I think I actually have a formula I made somewhere that finds out the area of any regular shape, given just the side length and number of sides.
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