Question

A sail is in the form of a right triangle that is four times as high as it is wide. The sail is made from 8 square meters of material. What is the height?

Answer 1

check the picture below

surely you know how much "x" is

so the height is 4x

Answer 2

Answer:

The height is 8 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

The area of a right triangle is given as :

$A=\frac{base\times height}{2}$

We have been given the area as 8 square meters.

Let the base be = b

The sail is four times as high as it is wide, so the height will be = 4b

Putting the values in formula:

$8=\frac{b \times 4b}{2}$

$8=\frac{4b^{2}}{2}$

=> $4b^{2} =16$

=> $b^{2} =4$

b=2

So, the base is 2 feet.

And the height will be $4\times2=8$ feet.