Simple percent question My question says that line segment DC is 50% longer than line segment BD, and BD is 40 ft. Does that mean DC is 60 ft or 80? Please explain, brainliest to whoever explains it properly and quickly

60ft

Step-by-step explanation:

DC is 50% longer than BD (given)

BD is 40ft (given)

DC is 50% longer than BD this means that DC= BD+50% of  BD

40ft +50/100 * 40

=40ft +20ft

=60ft

Another way to solve this could be DC is 150%of BD as BD =40ft=100% of it's length.

So, 150/100 *40

=60ft

Hope this helps.

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-3

step-by-step explanation:

a drawing really does here:

so i draw the horizontal line y=2 and the vertical line x=-2 at this intersection i put b (this is where my right angle is going to be).   so point b is at (-2,2).   point a is 5 units long and is also on y=2 so this point has to be (3,2) or (-7,2) -doesn't matter i will go with (3,2).

now we know c is at (-2,y) we don't know the y yet bet we know that c is on x=-2.

we have the area of the triangle is .5bh=12.5

we know the base length is 5 (ab)

we have the height is (2-y) if you look at your

plug in

.5(5)(2-y)=12.5

solve for y to get the y-coordinate for c

2.5(2-y)=12.5

divide both sides by 2.5 giving:

2-y=5

now subtract 2 on both sides

-y=3

y=-3