Question

the area of the triangle below is 60 yards. What is the value of x?

Answer 1

how do i draw on here

Answer 2

Under where u type there should be thing it says draw... ight?

Answer 3

i just drew it

Answer 4

hmmmm i may be able to help... just maybe... im only in 7th grade though so

Answer 5

maybe you can try

Answer 6

Hmmm ok so to find the area im pretty sure you do base*height

Answer 7

yeah and it says the area of the triangle is 60 yards what is x?

Answer 8

Well you may want to try substitution for that... find something that makes sense like if sense you have 2 things on the triangly and one of them is x-2 and the other just says x

Answer 9

triangle*

Answer 10

you woukd have to think well if im finding 60 yards for the area

Answer 11

plug in a number for the bottom equation and try it with the x-2 equation...

Answer 12

so lets just try 20

Answer 13

20-2 is 18 and 18*20 is 360

Answer 14

so we need to go way lower

Answer 15

lets try 10

Answer 16

ohh oka

Answer 17

10-2 is 8 and 8*10 is 80

Answer 18

so a lil lower