To get the altitude of the triangle, which of these steps did we use?

We drew a perpendicular bisector of the base.

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Cut the perpendicular bisector according to the length of the altitude given.

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We drew an angle bisector of the vertex angle.

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We drew a line parallel to the base

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Solution

The correct options are
A We drew a perpendicular bisector of the base.
B Cut the perpendicular bisector according to the length of the altitude given.
D We drew a line parallel to the base
To get the altitude of the triangle, we first drew a perpendicular bisector of the base then we cut the perpendicular bisector according to the length of the altitude given and finally we drew a line parallel to the base to ensure we get our triangle with an altitude given in the question.

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