Question

the sides of traingle are 10 cm . 24 cm and 26 cm . find its area and the longest altitude.

Answer 1

From Pythagoras theorem we find that these are the sides of a right angled triangle and 26 is the hypotenuse
And the longest altitude is 24cmand area is
1/2*10*24=
=120

Answer 2

first find the area of the triangle
then take 10 cm side as base because the longest altitude can be drawn from the shortest side .

then do 1/2×10×h=area
then find the height (altitude)