What is the area of a triangle where the height is (5a + 2) and the base is (4a - 1)?
1 Answer
See a solution process below:
Explanation:
The formula for the area of a triangle is:
Where:
Substituting the expressions from the problem gives:
To multiply the two terms in the numerator you multiply each individual term in the left parenthesis by each individual term in the right parenthesis.
We can now combine like terms:
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