A triangular traffic island has a base half as long as its height. The island has an area of 169 square meters. How do you find the base and the height?
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May 5, 2017
Explanation:
My method was to just estimate:
May 5, 2017
The base is
Explanation:
The formula for area of a triangle is:
Since we know that the base is half as long as the height, we can represent the height as
Hence, in the formula we could write:
We know that the area is
Determine the square root of both sides.
Since the base is