Please help! the equation A=1/2bh gives the area A of a triangle, where b is the length of the base and h is the height Solve this equation for h

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Gwik · Answer 1 · 2015-01-15T05:48:54+0000

Solve the equation for h means that we want to obtain only one h on the LHS (or RHS) but it has to be "alone"
We are starting with

A =(1)/(2)*b*h

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We can multiply both sides by 2 to reduce 1/2

2A=bh

Now we can divide both sides by b to takes b to the LHS, so

(2A)/(b)=h

- its our result