Question

Help please.

Find x.

Answer 1

You have to use the Geometric Mean for triangles to find x. Our form will look like this:
`(2)/(x) = (x)/(6+2)` which simplifies to
`(2)/(x) = (x)/(8)`. Cross multiply to get
`x^(2) =16`. Therfore, x = 4. Usually when we take the square root of a number we will end up with both the principle (positive) root and the negative one as well. But since the 2 things in math that will never EVER be negative are time and distance/length, we will not consider the -4. x = 4