SOLUTION: How do I set up this word problem? The height of a triangle is 5 more than half the base of the triangle. The area of the triangle is 14 squared centimeters?

Question 471943: How do I set up this word problem?
The height of a triangle is 5 more than half the base of the triangle. The area of the triangle is 14 squared centimeters?
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The height of a triangle is more than half the base of the triangle .

The area of the triangle is squared centimeters:

also

so ....replace with

........use quadratic formula to find

......use only positive solution because the base cannot be negative

now find

check:

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