What is the height of the triangle if the area is thirty-five square meters?

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A triangle with a base labeled fourteen meters and a second side labeled fifteen meters. A dotted line extends from the vertex downward and perpendicular to the base. This dotted line is not labeled.

a. 5 meters

b.6 meters

c.twenty meters

d.twenty-one meters

Question

What is the height of the triangle if the area is thirty-five square meters?

PIC BELOW

A triangle with a base labeled fourteen meters and a second side labeled fifteen meters. A dotted line extends from the vertex downward and perpendicular to the base. This dotted line is not labeled. 

a. 5 meters 

 b.6 meters 

 c.twenty meters 

 d.twenty-one meters

anonymous · Answer

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phi · Answer

do you know the formula for the area of a triangle ?

anonymous · Answer

NO

phi · Answer

this shows you the formula http://www.mathsisfun.com/area.html can you find it ?

anonymous · Answer

YES

anonymous · Answer

IS IT C

anonymous · Answer

you know that to find the area of a triangle, you need its height, and from your diagram, you do not have its height......

anonymous · Answer

......so you need to find its height using Pythagoras Theorem.