What is the height of a triangle, if the area is 20 square inches and the base is 5 inches? Be sure that you can explain how you found your answer.

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asked Jun 19, 2022 3.9k views

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Morlock · Answer 1 · 2022-06-26T01:30:14+0000

so normally we would be finding the area of a triangle which is a=h*b/2

but in this case we are finding the height so theirs 3 ways to do this but i prefer the basic way

20=1/2(5)h

20=2.5

8=h

and to find out if that was correct lets do 8*5=40 40/ 2 =20 so this is correct

the height is 8