SOLUTION: As a CEO of an innovative automobile corporation, you asked one of the interns what would be the most inefficient/ ineffective way of creating an aerodynamic automobile. One of you

Question 1176017: As a CEO of an innovative automobile corporation, you asked one of the interns what would be the most inefficient/ ineffective way of creating an aerodynamic automobile. One of your employees told you a trapezoid, hypothetically named GEAR, would make as a poor to serve as the foundation of the future car. Given that GEAR is an isosceles trapezoid with two parallel sides, EA= (9t-1)m and GR= (6t+38)m, and with a median of 16m, find the lengths of the two parallel sides EA and GR, and the value of t.
Answer by ikleyn(53763) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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H I N T

The median of 16 m long is a mean arithmetic of the bases:


    16 =  + .


You do the rest.

Having my hint, you just know what to do next.

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