Question

She found that the area of the garden will be 127 1/2 square feet by using the equation Area=bh. I'd the height, h, of the parallelogram-shaped garden is 8 1/2 feet, what is the base, b, in feet?

Answer 1

To solve this problem yo must apply the proccedure shown below:

1. You must use the formula applied to calculate the area of the garden.

`A=bh`

2. You know the value of the area (
`127^{(1)/(2)}ft^(2)=127.5ft^(2)` and the value of the heigth (
`8^{(1)/(2)}ft=8.5ft` , therefore, you only need to solve for the base:

`b=(A)/(h)\\b=(127.5ft)/(8.5ft)\\b=15ft`

The answer is: 15 feet.