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The area of a triangle is 1440cm^2 the base of tge triangle is 5 times the height of the triangle

User Rayan Ral
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What should we find...
Probably base and the height...

Area = 1440cm²

base = 5×height

base = 5h

Area of triangle = base × height

1440 = 1/2 × 5h × h

1440 = 5h²/2

5h² = 2880

h² = 2880/5

h² = 576

h=24cm..

Height = 24cm

Since base = 5h

Base = 5×24

Base = 120cm...

Hope this helped....

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User Ashik Vetrivelu
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