Question

The area of the triangle below is 2/15 square centimeters. What is the length of the

base? Express your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

Let's set the base of the triangle to x.

(x* 3/5) / 2= 2/5

Now just solve

x*3/5=4/5

x=4/3

The base has length 4/3= =1 1/3

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