SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: A city park in the shape of a right triangle has an area of 450√3 square yards. One leg of the triangle measures half the length of the hy
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Question 1045756: Please help me solve this problem: A city park in the shape of a right triangle has an area of 450√3 square yards. One leg of the triangle measures half the length of the hypotenuse. What are the dimensions of the park?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39795) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
h for hypotenuse
y for height
x for length
AREA:
Either leg,
The triangle is a RIGHT Triangle.
System of Equations:
, having one modification done already.
Another modification,
Take the rest of the process; a few or several algebra steps. The obvious first step is substitute for h in the Pythagorean Theorem relationship equation.
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