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The area of a triangular-shaped sail on a boat is 62 ft2 The height is 8 ft. What is the base?

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Answer:

The base is of 15.5 feet

Explanation:

The area of a triangular shaped figure is given by:

A = 0.5*b*h

In which b is the base and h is the height.

In this question:

A = 62, h = 8. We want to find the base. So

A = 0.5*b*h

62 = 0.5*b*8

4b = 62

b = 62/4

b = 15.5

The base is of 15.5 feet

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