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The triangle shown below has an area of 323232 units^2

2
squared.
Find the missing side.

User Macky
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Answer:

8

Step-by-step explanation:

The answer is 8

User Sergey Solod
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Step-by-step explanation:

Hello! Remember you have to write complete questions in order to get good and exact answers. Here you haven't provided any figure, so I could help you providing my own triangle (isosceles triangle) which is shown below. We know that the area of a triangle is defined by:


A=(bh)/(2) \\ \\ \\ Where: \\ \\ A:Area \\ \\ b:base \\ \\ h:height \\ \\ \\ Finding \ h: \\ \\ 32=(4h)/(2) \\ \\ h=(2* 32)/(4)=16units

So our goal is to find x. Since this is an isosceles triangle, we can use Pythagorean Theorem, therefore:


x=√(h^2+(4/2)^2) \\ \\ x=√(16^2+2^2)=2√(65)

Finally, the missing side are:


2√(65)units

The triangle shown below has an area of 323232 units^2 2 squared. Find the missing-example-1
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