Question

If the midsegment of a triangle is 5x plus 3 and the base is 27 what is the measure of the midsegment?

Answer 1

Yes they are, no matter what way, what size and you put them all together it will come out as a triangle For an interesting type of triangle that has all its' angles at 90 degrees take an orange or tennis ball and draw a triangle on it joining up all three axies. Show it to your teacher, they will be impressed. Then tell you friends to draw you a triangle with ALL three angles at 90 degrees, don't tell them about the ball until you show them.

Answer 2

Answer:

13.5 units

Explanation:

By mid point theorem

Midsegment is always half of the base of the triangle.

Let ABC be a triangle where D and E are the mid points of sides AB and AC respectively. BC is the base of the triangle.

Therefore DE is the midsegment.

DE = 5x + 3

BC = 27

Hence,

DE = 1/2 BC

5x + 3 = 1/2 *27

5x + 3 = 13.5

5x = 10.5

x = 2.1

Therefore

DE = 5*(2.1) + 3 =10.5 + 3

DE = 13.5 units

Thus the length of midsegment is 13.5 units.