The area of a triangular block is 64 square inches. If the base of the triangle is twice the height, how long are the base and the height of the triangle?

Question

This is the triangle formula

Answer 1

Greetings! Lets solve this shall we ?

So, we must find out the height and base of this triangle such that the formula yields

(1/2)(b)(h) = A

(1/2)(2x)(x) = 64

x² = 64

x = 8 inch height

Then we plug in the height to obtain the base such that base = 2x = 2(8) = 16 inches

I hope this helped!