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Revision as of 16:33, 18 June 2018
Right triangle has leg lengths
and
. Including
and
, how many line segments with integer length can be drawn from vertex
to a point on hypotenuse
?
Solution
As the problem has no diagram, we draw a diagram. The hypotenuse has length
. Let
be the foot of the altitude from
to
. Note that
is the shortest possible length of any segment. Writing the area of the triangle in two ways, we can solve for
, which is between
and
.
Let the line segment be , with
on
. As you move
along the hypotenuse from
to
, the length of
strictly decreases, hitting all the integer values from
(IVT). Similarly, moving
from
to
hits all the integer values from
. This is a total of
line segments.
(asymptote diagram added by elements2015)
See Also
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