Question

The base of a triangle is 3 inches more than two times the height. If the area of the triangle is 7 in.² find the base and height.

Answer 1

Explanation:

-The answer for the height is 5.5 units.

-The base of the triangle is aproximately 2.5454 units.

To answer this problem, you have to set an equation with the information you're given. If you do it correctly, it should look like this:

7=1/2(3+2h)

-Now, you have to solve for h:

7=1.5+h

7-1.5=h

5.5=h

-Now that you have the height, you plug it in into the triangle area formula to solve for the base:

7=1/2(b)5.5

7=2.75b

7/2.75=b

b≈2.5454

-To make sure that the corresponding values for the base and height are correct, we plug the values in and this time we are going to solve for a(AREA):

A(triangle)=1/2(2.5454)(5.5)

A=1/2(13.9997)

A=6.99985 square units

-We round the result to the nearest whole number and we get our 7, which is the given value they gave us.

Answer 2

Let's denote the height of the triangle as "h" inches.

According to the given information, the base of the triangle is 3 inches more than two times the height. Therefore, the base can be expressed as (2h + 3) inches.

The formula to calculate the area of a triangle is:

Area = (1/2) * base * height

Substituting the given values, we have:

7 = (1/2) * (2h + 3) * h

To simplify the equation, let's remove the fraction by multiplying both sides by 2:

14 = (2h + 3) * h

Expanding the right side of the equation:

14 = 2h^2 + 3h

Rearranging the equation to bring all terms to one side:

2h^2 + 3h - 14 = 0

Now, we can solve this quadratic equation. We can either factor it or use the quadratic formula. In this case, let's use the quadratic formula:

h = (-b ± √(b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a)

For our equation, the values are:

a = 2

b = 3

c = -14

Substituting these values into the quadratic formula:

h = (-3 ± √(3^2 - 4 * 2 * -14)) / (2 * 2)

Simplifying:

h = (-3 ± √(9 + 112)) / 4

h = (-3 ± √121) / 4

Taking the square root:

h = (-3 ± 11) / 4

This gives us two possible solutions for the height: h = 2 or h = -14/4 = -3.5.

Since a negative height doesn't make sense in this context, we discard the negative solution.

Therefore, the height of the triangle is h = 2 inches.

To find the base, we substitute this value back into the expression for the base:

base = 2h + 3

base = 2(2) + 3

base = 4 + 3

base = 7 inches

Hence, the base of the triangle is 7 inches and the height is 2 inches.