Right Triangles, Altitiudes, and the Geometric Mean

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Using the above picture complete the following:

1. z is the geometric mean between and x and y.

2 v is the geometric mean between x+y and x.

Find the values x and y (leave answer in simplified radical form):

3.

 

 

4. I will first solve for z then x:

Now I can solve for y:

 

 

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