Asked by Asfand

How to divide a right angled triangle into two isosceles triangle ? Kindly help

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Answered by Scott
construct perpendicular bisectors on the two shorter sides (non hypotenuse)

the bisectors will intersect the hypotenuse at the vertices of the two isosceles triangles

the common side for the triangles is the line from the intersection to the right angle
Answered by Reiny
or even simpler:
draw a median from the right-angle to the hypotenuse.

proof:
let the triangle be A(0,0), B(b,0) and C(0,c)
let AD be the median.
midpoint of BC = ( (b/2 , c/2)
AD = √(b^2/4 + c^2/4)

BD = √(b - b/2)^2 + (c/2-0)^2 ) = CD
= √( b^2/4 + c^2/4)
= AD
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