How do you find the orthocenter of a triangle?

Can someone please walk me through the steps on how to find the orthocenter of these coordinates:

(2,4), (8,4), and (4,0)

Thanks so much!

Answer #1

The orthocenter is where the altitudes od all the vertecies of a triangle meet. so do the math and you should be fine..

Answer #2

Here’s a link to the math: http://www.pballew.net/orthocen.html

Here’s a link to an interactive demonstration: http://www.mathopenref.com/triangleorthocenter.html

And here’s a link to how to solve your problem, leaving you to do the math: http://feu.answers.fy8.b.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091020140636AAaIDy8

Good luck!

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