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A sail is in the form of a right triangle that is two times as high as it is wide. The sail is made from 4 square meters of material. WHAT IS ITS HEIGHT???

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4 m

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that a triangle has half the area of a rectangle of the same height and width. That is, the rectangle that is as high and wide as the sail will have an area of 8 m². Of course, the area of a rectangle is the product of its length and width.

We know that 2×4 = 8 and that 4 is twice as much as 2. Thus the 4 dimension corresponds to the height of the sail, and the 2 dimension corresponds to its width.

The sail is 4 m high.

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