Equilateral Triangle Geometry

Geometry Level 1

The equilateral triangle ABC has a height from A, which intersects BC at E. Extend AE to a point D such that AC=CD. Find the angles EBD and EDB in degrees.

EBD=30 , EDB=60 EBD=60 , EDB=30 EBD=80 , EDB=10 EBD=35 , EDB=65

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8 solutions

Sam Davies
Oct 23, 2014

Its very simple - you extend AE so that AC = CD - these are both sides of the triangles.

This means that Triangles ABC and BCD are constructed of sides of equal length, so they are both equilateral and all internal angles are 60.

EBD is therefore 60, and EDB is half of an internal angle and hence 30.

how internal angles are 60 degree ?????????????

Despicable Tamim - 6 years, 7 months ago

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Because it's an equilateral triangle, in every equilateral triangle, i.e. an triangle which all sides has the same length, all angles are 60. Try to make an equilateral triangle with different angles, it's completely impossible.

Jefferson Oliveira - 6 years, 7 months ago

because its an equilateral triangle ..... in an equilateral triangle all sides are equal and hence all angles are equal... as sum of all angles in a triangle is 180 degrees x+x+x=180=> 3x=180=> x=180/3=>x=60

Vatsal Shukla - 6 years, 7 months ago

Definition of an equilateral triangle that is bisected from the vertex to the base: it's a 30-60-90 triangle.

Drew G - 6 years, 7 months ago

the diagram is not reliable..

Mark Vincent Mamigo - 6 years, 7 months ago

it is equilateral triangle

Mohammad Mahrous - 6 years, 7 months ago
Shishir Dalakoti
Oct 23, 2014

its simple qbc is equilateral so<ace=60 degree and ad is the perpendicular bisector of bc so <aec=90degree so <eac=180-(90+60)=30. now since ac=dc so <cde=30 degree and triangle edc &bed are congurent so <ebd=180-(90+30)=60

how <ace=60 degree ?????????????????

Despicable Tamim - 6 years, 7 months ago

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Its an equilateral \triangle !

Dawar Husain - 6 years, 5 months ago

it is equilateral triangle , all angles are equal , and its sum equal to 180

Mohammad Mahrous - 6 years, 7 months ago

how <ebd=60 explain how u applied congruency??

Siva Kumar Celeron - 6 years, 7 months ago
Willy Mwamba
Nov 22, 2014

The equilateral triangle has all 3 inside angles equal to 60° each. By extending the height AE which intersects the side BC in the middle, to a point D so that AC=CD, we draw exactly an other equilateral triangle opposite the first one. The right triangle AEC is congruent to the right triangle DEC ( 2 right triangles having their hypothenuses equal, are equal, congruent). So AE= ED, AC=CD, EC is shared. Therefore Triangle ABC=triangle DBC. Therefore the triangle DBC is equilateral and all inside angles are 60°. The height AE intersect the angle BAC in 2 halves, so does also the height DE which intersect the angle CDB in 2 halves, therfore the angle EDB=30°, and the angle DBC is 60° (inside angle of an equilateral triagle) which is also equal to EBD.

Robert Haywood
Nov 15, 2014

Half an equilateral triangle makes a 90-60-30 right triangle, which would be A E C \triangle AEC , since it is the side we are dealing with.

If A C = C D AC=CD , that means that B C D \triangle BCD is equilateral, because of Hypotenuse-leg theorem (EC and EC because of reflexive property (leg), DC and AC due to the problem (hypotenuse), and D E C \angle DEC and A E C \angle AEC , since I have proven the latter is 9 0 90 ^ \circ , and when a line separates a straight line, the resulting angles are supplementary (the theorem only works for right triangles, so...)).

So the angle split by the altitude ( B D E \angle BDE ) would be 3 0 30 ^ \circ because of the type of right triangle created here, and the other angle would obviously be 6 0 60 ^ \circ because of the Triangle Sum Theorem 180 ( 90 + 30 ) = 6 0 180-(90+30)=60 ^ \circ

Jagan Mohan Rao
Oct 31, 2014

Side EC is common & given AC=CD. Since the picture is not drawn to scale, there appears to be some confusion . How ever Triangles AEC & CED are identical . similarly when points B&D are joined u find a mirror image of Triangle ECD. Hence angle EBD=ECD=ACE=60 degrees. andAngle EBD is 30 degrees

Krishna Garg
Oct 25, 2014

Since details given are showing that anle ABE is 60 degree so angle EBD will be 60.also AE is bisecting angle A so it is 30 degree and therefore angle EDB is also 30 degree.Ans. K.K.GARG,India

Annu Riz
Oct 23, 2014

its simple sum of all angles of a triangle is equal to 180.... angle BED is of 90 degrees and AD is a bisector line which divides angle to two equal parts so...through this angle BDE is 30 and the other angle is of 60 degree

Richard Levine
Oct 23, 2014

The key words here are "height from A", which means AE is perpendicular to BC. For an equilateral triangle, that means AE bisects BC and so we have symmetry all the way around with sides AB=AC=CD=BD and angle BAC bisected. So angle BAE = angle EDB = 30. That leaves angle EBD = 60, because angle DEB = 90.

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