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math challenge II-A Geometry 8.30

 
 
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math challenge II-A Geometry 8.30
WuZeyin - 2021年10月29日 Friday 06:55
 

Can I have a diagram of this question, please? Besides, why is DN 5*sqrt 3? Shouldn't it be the hypotenuse of triangle CDN? 

 
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Re: math challenge II-A Geometry 8.30
LensmireJohn - 2021年10月29日 Friday 12:24
 

Here's a quick diagram that I recently shared (it's not very accurate to the numbers in the problem, but still gives an idea of how all the points are related to each other):


In particular, it should help better understand what M and N being feet from perpendicular lines from B and C respectively means in the problem.