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#39530

geometry

triangle

hard

75 sec

In the figure above, $△ MNP$ is a right triangle with $∠ MNP = 9 0^{\circ}$ . $\overline{NQ}$ is an altitude to the hypotenuse $\overline{MP}$ . If the length of $\overline{MN}$ is 5 and the length of $\overline{NP}$ is 12, what is the length of $\overline{NQ}$ ?

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