A triangle that is 2 meters less than 4 times its height. What is the area when height is 8 meters

Question

I need the height for an algebra assignment. Please please please please please help. I don’t need any work.

Answer 1

Hey! Lets solve this shall we ?

So, this problem is saying the base of a triangle is 2 meters less than 4 times its height. What is the area when the height is 8 meters? Now, we begin to label the base and height such that the base is

b = 4x - 2 and the height is

h = x.

Since the height is 8 meters, the base is 4(8) - 2 = 30 meters. Now we can find the area of a triangle such that

A = (1/2)bh = (1/2)(30)(8) = (1/2)(240) = 120 square meters

I hope this helped!