Question

The area of a triangle is 18. The base is 6 inches. What is the height? Do not include units in your answer.Provide your answer below:Content attribution

Answer 1

The formula to calculate the area of a triangle

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

where b is the base and h is the height

in this case

A=18

b=6

h=?

we substitute the values

`18=(1)/(2)(6)(h)`

we isolate the h

`h=(18\cdot2)/(6)=(36)/(6)=6`

The height is 6