Question

The height of a triangle is 5 more than double the base length. If the height of the triangle is 74 mm, what is the base length of the triangle?

If b represents the length of the base in mm, the equation that represents this problem is___
.

The base of the triangle is
_____mm.

Answer 1

[AI-generated answer — Bot GPT 3.5]

The base length is b mm.

The equation representing the problem is:
74 = 2b + 5

Solving for b:
74 - 5 = 2b
69 = 2b
b = 34.5

Therefore, the base of the triangle is 34.5 mm.