QUESTION ON MY PAGE NEED HELP AND USE THIS Problem-Based Task: On the Shelf
Kareem wants to put up a small corner shelf in his room. The shelf is in the shape of a right triangle. One
leg of the triangle is 2 inches shorter than the other leg. The longest side of the shelf is 10 inches long.
Kareem needs to find the area of the shelf so that he knows if he has enough paint to cover the top of the
shelf. The area of a triangle is A=1/2 bh.
Let the length of the long leg equal x. How can the length of the short leg 10 points
be expressed in terms of x? *
(x)
(x + 2)
(x - 2)
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