SOLUTION: Area of a sail. A triangular sail has an area of x^2 + 5x + 6 square meters and a height of x + 3 meters. Find the length of the sail’s base.
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Question 146941: Area of a sail. A triangular sail has an area of x^2 + 5x + 6 square meters and a height of x + 3 meters. Find the length of the sail’s base.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The area of a triangle is
Let’s substitute for the known values,
We can recognize that the area can be simplified into its factors.
We can again substitute,
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