Question

the area of a triangle is 26 sq inches. The base is half the height. Find the height and base of the triangle.

Answer 1

.5(x*.5x)=26
\[x = \pm 10.198\]

Answer 2

then plug in x to get both the height and base

Answer 3

height = 10.198
base = .5*10.198
we ignore the -10.198 because a length cannot be negative

Answer 4

the height is 10.2
the base is 5.1