SOLUTION: A softball team is designing a triangular pennant such that the heigth is 6in. less than 4 times the length of the base b. Express the area of the pennant as a function of b.
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Question 467079: A softball team is designing a triangular pennant such that the heigth is 6in. less than 4 times the length of the base b. Express the area of the pennant as a function of b. Answer by asuar010(338) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! first draw a triangle and then label the base and height.. the base is just b and according to be the problem, the height should be 4b-6...
the formula for area of a triangle is so we just substitute and we get then we obtain and becomes
