Video Transcript
Determine the height of the given
triangle, which can be found using the expression 30 divided by 𝑏, given that 𝑏 is
the base of the triangle.
In this question, we are asked to
find the height of a given triangle and we are given that the height of the triangle
is given by 30 divided by 𝑏, where we are told that 𝑏 is the length of the base of
the triangle. We can see in the given figure that
the base is the side at the bottom of the right triangle and it has length five
feet, so our value of 𝑏 is equal to five.
We are told that the height of the
triangle is given by 30 divided by 𝑏. So we can find the height of the
triangle by substituting 𝑏 equals five into the expression and evaluating. Substituting 𝑏 equals five into
the equation gives us that the height of the triangle is 30 divided by five. We can then evaluate this division
to obtain six. Since the lengths are given in
feet, we can say that the height of the triangle is six feet.
