Aparamedic stocks ambulance with 4 boxes of gauze. , each box contains 12 gauze pads. they use 28 pafs. what fraction represents the number of gauze pads left?

First find total number of pads:

4*12=48

Next find how many pads left:

48-28=20

Now create fraction:

20/48=5/8

The length of the altitude is

Explanation:

Let ABC be an equilateral triangle.

It has sides of length 16 cm

Let AD be the altitude of the triangle.

We need to determine the length of an altitude.

Let AC = 16 cm and CD = 8 cm

Let us consider the right angled triangle ADC

Using the Pythagorean theorem, we have,

Substituting the values, we get,

The length of the altitude is