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A triangle has altitude 4cm less than it's base. If the area of the triangle is 38.5cm3 find the length of it's base
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A triangle has altitude 4cm less than it's base. If the area of the triangle is 38.5cm3 find the length of it's base

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Since it wouldn't make sense to have a negative height, we will pick the correct answer to be 22 cm. To check our work, we will replace "x" with 22.

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