Question

a sail is in the form of a right triangle that is three times as high as it is wide. The sail is made from 6 square meters of material. What is its height?

Answer 1

Ymous7680 is correct. On plato, enter only the number 6.

Answer 2

6m tall because the formula for area in triangle is base×height/2 the width would be 2 meters multiply that by 3 which gives you 6. To check your answer multiply 6 by 2 and divide by 2 which is plugging the numbers into the formula