3.9k views
5 votes
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.

2 Answers

4 votes

Answer:8

Explanation:

User Dennis Ameling
by
8.6k points
1 vote

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

User Morlock
by
7.9k points

No related questions found

Welcome to QAmmunity.org, where you can ask questions and receive answers from other members of our community.

9.4m questions

12.2m answers

Categories