SOLUTION: the height of a triangular sail is 6 yards less than twice the length of its base. if the area of the sail is 70 square yards, find the dimensions of the sail
The length of the
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Question 811184: the height of a triangular sail is 6 yards less than twice the length of its base. if the area of the sail is 70 square yards, find the dimensions of the sail
The length of the base of the triangular sail is ___yards and its height is ___yards
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Base is x
Leg is 2x-6
Hypotenuse is blank.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For a triangle,
For the sail
The area, in square yards is
The solutions to that equation are
and , but cannot be the length, in yards, of the base of a sail. It should be a positive number.
So the base of the sail measures ,
and the height measures .
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