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?
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=∠ABD−∠ABH=62−24=38.
Now, △BEC is a right triangle, so we know that ∠BCA=42.
This means that ∠A=180−62−42=76, so ∠HCA=∠FCA=180−90−76=14