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    The document summarizes key concepts about geometric means and properties of right triangles with an altitude drawn to the hypotenuse. It provides examples calculating geometric means between numbers and using theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles. The summary is: The document covers calculating geometric means as the positive square root of the product of two numbers. It also presents two theorems - that the altitude of a right triangle divides the hypotenuse into segments where the altitude is the geometric mean of the segments, and the leg lengths are the geometric mean of the hypotenuse and adjacent segment. Examples demonstrate applying the theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles.

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    The document summarizes key concepts about geometric means and properties of right triangles with an altitude drawn to the hypotenuse. It provides examples calculating geometric means between numbers and using theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles. The summary is: The document covers calculating geometric means as the positive square root of the product of two numbers. It also presents two theorems - that the altitude of a right triangle divides the hypotenuse into segments where the altitude is the geometric mean of the segments, and the leg lengths are the geometric mean of the hypotenuse and adjacent segment. Examples demonstrate applying the theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles.

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    The document summarizes key concepts about geometric means and properties of right triangles with an altitude drawn to the hypotenuse. It provides examples calculating geometric means between numbers and using theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles. The summary is: The document covers calculating geometric means as the positive square root of the product of two numbers. It also presents two theorems - that the altitude of a right triangle divides the hypotenuse into segments where the altitude is the geometric mean of the segments, and the leg lengths are the geometric mean of the hypotenuse and adjacent segment. Examples demonstrate applying the theorems to find missing side lengths of right triangles.

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    7.

    1 Geometric Mean
    Find the geometric mean between two
    numbers

    Solve problems involving relationships


    between parts of right triangles and
    the altitude to its hypotenuse
    The geometric mean between two
    numbers is the positive square root of their
    products.

    In other words, given two positive numbers


    such as a and b, the geometric mean is
    the positive number x such that
    a:x=x:b
    We can also write this as fractions,
    a/x=x/b
    or as cross products,
    x 2 = ab.
    Example 1a:
    Find the geometric mean between 2 and 50.
    Let x represent the geometric mean.

    Definition of geometric mean

    Cross products

    Take the positive square


    root of each side.

    Simplify.

    Answer: The geometric mean is 10.


    Example 1b:
    Find the geometric mean between 25 and 7.
    Let x represent the geometric mean.

    Definition of geometric mean

    Cross products
    Take the positive square
    root of each side.
    Simplify.
    Use a calculator.
    Answer: The geometric mean is about 13.2.
    Your Turn:
    a. Find the geometric mean between 3 and 12.

    Answer: 6

    b. Find the geometric mean between 4 and 20.

    Answer: 8.9
    If the altitude is C
    drawn to the
    hypotenuse of a
    right triangle, then
    the two triangles
    formed are similar
    to the original A D B
    triangle and to each
    other. CBD ~ ABC
    ACD ~ ABC
    CBD ~ ACD
    C
    Theorem 7.2: In a right triangle, the
    altitude from the right angle to the
    hypotenuse divides the hypotenuse
    into two segments. The length of the
    altitude is the geometric mean of the
    lengths of the two segments. A
    D B

    Theorem 7.3: In a right triangle, the BD CD


    altitude from the right angle to the =
    hypotenuse divides the hypotenuse CD AD
    into two segments. The length of
    each leg of the right triangle is the AB CB
    geometric mean of the lengths of the =
    hypotenuse and the segment of the CB DB
    hypotenuse that is adjacent to the
    leg. AB AC
    =
    AC AD
    2

    x y 5

    6 3

    6 x 5+2 = y
    =
    x 3 y 2
    18 = x2 7 y
    =
    18 = x y 2
    14 = y2
    9 2 = x
    3 2 = x 14 = y
    Example 2:
    Example 2:

    Cross products
    Take the positive square
    root of each side.
    Use a calculator.
    Answer: CD is about 12.7.
    Your Turn:

    Answer: about 8.5


    Example 3:
    KITES Ms. Turner is constructing a kite for her son.
    She has to arrange perpendicularly two support rods,
    the shorter of which is 27 inches long. If she has to
    place the short rod 7.25 inches from one end of the
    long rod in order to form two right triangles with the
    kite fabric, what is the length of the long rod?
    Example 3:
    Draw a diagram of one of the right triangles formed.

    Let be the altitude drawn from the right angle of


    Example 3:

    Cross products
    Divide each side by 7.25.

    Answer: The length of the long rod is 7.25 + 25.2, or


    about 32.4 inches long.
    Your Turn:
    AIRPLANES A jetliner has a wingspan, BD, of 211
    feet. The segment drawn from the front of the plane to
    the tail, intersects at point E. If AE is 163 feet,
    what is the length of the aircraft?

    Answer: about 231.3 ft


    Example 4:
    Find c and d in
    Example 4:
    is the altitude of right triangle JKL. Use Theorem 7.2
    to write a proportion.

    Cross products
    Divide each side by 5.
    Example 4:
    is the leg of right triangle JKL. Use the Theorem 7.3 to
    write a proportion.

    Cross products
    Take the square root.
    Simplify.
    Use a calculator.
    Answer:
    Your Turn:
    Find e and f.

    Answer:
    Pre-AP Geometry
    Pg. 346 #13 38 & #44

    Geometry
    Pg. 346 #13 32, #35 - 38

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