The line segment is a perpendicular drawn from vertex to the opposite side of .
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Such a line segment in a triangle is called the altitude of the triangle.
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In other words, a perpendicular drawn from a vertex to the opposite side of the triangle is called an altitude of the triangle.
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Since we have vertices in a triangle, we will always have altitudes.
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Hence, we say that a triangle has altitudes.
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R. D. Sharma Solutions for Chapter: Triangles, Exercise 2: OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
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