Question

Here is Triangle A. Lin created a scaled copy of Triangle A with an area of 72 square units. C. What is the length of bottom side of the scaled copy?

Answer 1

Answer:

The length of bottom side of the scaled copy is 12 u

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem we have to know that to calculate the area of ​​a triangle we use the following formula

a = area

b = base

h = height

a = b * h

In the triangle A the base and the height are equal to 3

b = h

Now that we know that b & h we can calculate the base of the scaled copy

72 u² = b * b

72 u² = (b)²

√(72 u²) = b

12 u = b

The length of bottom side of the scaled copy is 12 u