Question

Am I correct ??? I don’t really know

Answer 1

What you have here is a situation with two similar triangles. The triangle in the lower left is similar to the triangle in the upper right - I've included an image with "cutouts" of those triangles so you can see the similarities. Similar triangles have a very important property: the ratios of their corresponding sides are equivalent. Here, we can set up a ratio between the sides of length 64 and x on the larger triangle, and the corresponding sides of length x and 36 on the smaller triangle. Setting the two equal to each other, we have


`(64)/(x)= (x)/(36)`

Multiplying both sides of the equation by 36 and x, we get


`64\cdot36=x^2`

finally, we take the square root of both sides of the equation to find x:


`√(64\cdot36)=x\\ √(64)√(36)=x\\ 8\cdot6=x\\ 48=x`