SOLUTION: He gave us a question he made up and told us chapter 11 would help us, but I'm not having any luck.
The height of a triangle is 5 centimeters longer than three times its base. Fi
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: He gave us a question he made up and told us chapter 11 would help us, but I'm not having any luck.
The height of a triangle is 5 centimeters longer than three times its base. Find the base of the triangle if its area is 6 square centimeters.
This question is from textbook beginning and intermediate algebra
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the formula for the area of a triangle is:
Or
Given:
Then
….multiply both sides by
….
….now use sqrt formula to find only positive root
Then
check:
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