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Altitudes AD and BE of acute triangle ABC intersect at point H. If angle AHB=128 and angle BAH=28, then what is angle HCA in degrees?

 Aug 11, 2022
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Draw altitude CF. This will intersect at the orthocenter, which is H. This means that AFC is a right triangle. 

 

If we know what A was, we can figure out what HCA is, because FCA=HCA and F is a right angle. 

 

Now, note that ADB is a right triangle, and since we know BAH=28 and ADB=90, ABD=62.


Also, we know that ABH=24, meaning HBD=ABDABH=6224=38.

 

Now, BEC is a right triangle, so we know that BCA=42.

 

This means that A=1806242=76, so HCA=FCA=1809076=14

 Aug 12, 2022
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Sorry, that's wrong. Thanks for trying though.

waterlili  Aug 12, 2022

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