A landscaper is designing a flower garden in the shape of a trapezoid. She wants the shorter base to be 3 yards greater than the height and the longer base to be 7 yards greater than the height. She wants the area to be 295 square yards. The situation is modeled by the equation h2 + 5h = 295. Use the quadratic formula to find the height that will give the desired area. Round to the nearest hundredth of a yard.

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anonymous · Answer

you're given the equation you have to solve. if you put it in the form:$$a x^2 +bx+c=0  $$then you can plug right into the quadratic equation and solve for h