## anonymous 5 years ago I need help check my answer, just write the equation ,don't have to solve . http://i1142.photobucket.com/albums/n608/nancylam67/Page322.jpg

1. anonymous

$(5x \times (3x + 5)) \div 2$

2. dumbcow

hmm which triangle do they want for area? and is the 3x+5 only the length of the pink shaded triangle?

3. anonymous

thats what i assumed.

4. anonymous

i need to find the erea of shaded

5. anonymous

yep, thats what i gave you, although with the information given you can't find the area of anything else.

6. anonymous

it 2 triangle is the same?

7. anonymous

does'n say 2 triangle the same

8. anonymous

what?

9. anonymous

the picture dosen't say 2triangle the same segment, I don't know

10. dumbcow

no i was wrong sorry i misinterpreted the figure...they were just showing what the height was, i thought it was a triangle inside of another triangle

11. anonymous

what you think?

12. anonymous

Me? I thought the dotted lines of the figure where just there to make it more lear that its a right angle. no matter what triangle you think it is, the information provided only gives you enough to find the area of one triangle, the formula is always the same though.

13. anonymous

3x+5 is the base of the shaded only ,or the base segment of both triangle?

14. anonymous

it is only the shaded segment, but the area you can work out remains the same either way.

15. anonymous

thank both