Isn't it that in an right angle triangle a perpenidcular line to hupothenuses (BC) halves the 90 degree triangle into 45° and 45° degrees?

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Original question is below:

If angle BAD is a right angle, what is the length of side BD?


(1) AC is perpendicular to BD
(2) BC = CD

Now, obviously each statement alone is not sufficient.

When taken together we have that AC is a perpendicular bisector. Now, if a line from a vertex to the opposite side is both perpendicular to it and bisects it then this side is a base of an isosceles triangle (or in other words if a bisector and perpendicular coincide then we have an isosceles triangle). You can check this yourself: in triangles ACD and ACB two sides are equal (AC=AC and BC=CD) and included angle between these sides are also equal (<ACD=<ACB=90) so we have Side-Angle-Side case (SAS), which means that ACD and ACB are congruent triangles, so AB=AD --> ABD is an isosceles triangle.

Next, as ABD is an isosceles triangle then AB=AD=5 and hypotenuse \(BD=5\sqrt{2}\).

Answer: C.

For more on this Triangles chapter of Math Book: http://gmatclub.com/forum/math-triangles-87197.html

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