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a triangle upper A upper B upper C
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The side upper A upper B is labeled c. The side upper A upper C is labeled b. The side upper B upper C is labeled a. A line labeled h connects the vertex upper B and the middle of the side upper A upper C and it forms a right angle with the edge.

If h=10
meters and m∠C = 39°
, then what is the length of side a
? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

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Responses

16 meters
16 meters

6 meters
6 meters

13 meters
13 meters

8 meters

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16 meters

Reason: The median from B to AC is also an altitude, so AB = BC and triangle BMC is right with BM = h = 10. In that right triangle BM = a·sin(39°), so a = 10 / sin(39°) ≈ 15.9 ≈ 16 m.