Thursday, February 21, 2013

The height of a triangle is twice it's base and the area is 576 square inches . What is the length of the base?

First, we'll recall the formula of the area of a triangle,
that contains the base and the height.


A = b*h/2
(1)


b = base


h =
height


From enunciation, we have
that:


h = 2b (2)


We'll
substitute (2) in (1) and we'll get:


A =
b*2b/2


We'll simplify:


A =
b^2


From enunciation, the value of the area
is:


576 square inches =
b^2


We'll take square root both
sides:


sqrt 576 = sqrt b^2


b =
24 inches


The length of the base of triangle
is b = 24 inches long.

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