SOLUTION: The width of a triangle is 4 meters shorter than its height. What are the height and width of the triangle if the area is 48 square meters?
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: The width of a triangle is 4 meters shorter than its height. What are the height and width of the triangle if the area is 48 square meters?
This question is from textbook Intermediate Algebra
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
By width, I presume you mean the measure of the base. Let 
represent the measure of the base, then the height must be 
The area of a triangle, in terms of the measures of the base and the height is:
Substitute what you know:
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Simplify, put it into standard form, and solve the resulting quadratic for
John
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