What is the area of triangle abc? round your final answer to the nearest cm.

A = 21.65 cm squared

Step-by-step explanation:

The basic area formula for a triangle is

We have our base as 5, so we can find the height using right triangle trig.  Side BC is opposite the given angle, which is the height, and we are given side CD as 5 which is the base.  Using the tangent ratio to find side BC:

which simplifies to

5 tan(60) = x so

x = 8.66

Filling in for the area:

so

A = 21.65 cm squared

the answer to the expression is 83

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

step-by-step explanation: