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Use the area formula to solve for length of the base of the triangle.


Transcript

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure Brought to you by square units You'll be able

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to afford a one bedroom apartment someday Well all right

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Triangle shown below Right here as an area of two

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hundred ten square units How long is the base of

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the triangle face this time and here's A potential answers

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You're feeling all numbers All right Well so to figure

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this one out we're gonna have to know a formula

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That's Great but uh not just any form This point

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Area of a triangle you one half based on time

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Okay so now what do we do with this information

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Well we have a couple of numbers we can plug

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into this formula of ours We're told that the total

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area is two hundred ten square units so we can

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replace the words area of a triangle with two Ten

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and we can tell they looking at the diagram that

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the highest fifteen So now our formula is to ten

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equals one half base times fifteen And if we divide

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to ten by fifteen we get fourteen with magic calculator

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there Andi out Fourteen equals one half of face Well

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Multiply both sides by two To get rid of that

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half their way Get twenty eight equals b or base

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So there we go The answer's aye aye is an 00:01:26.617 --> [endTime] ample living space

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