Question

The area of a triangle is four times the area of a square. If the base of the triangle and a side of the square are equal, what is the ratio of the side of the square to the height of the triangle?.

Answer 1

1:8

Explanation:

since the base and sides are equal, I'll use 2 as a value for them. since all square sides are equal, we can find the area of the square. 2(2)=4. this means that in the situation the area of the triangle is 16.

16=1/2(2)h

32=2h

16=h

the height of the triangle is 16, while the side of the square is 2. the ratio is 2:16, or 1:8