SOLUTION: Please Help, I'm not quite sure if I answered this right or not but the question is, Solve A= 1/2 (b1 + b2)h for h I have to get h by itself and I came up with 2A over b3 in fr

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: Please Help, I'm not quite sure if I answered this right or not but the question is, Solve A= 1/2 (b1 + b2)h for h
I have to get h by itself and I came up with 2A over b3 in fraction form =h is this right? if not could you please help me?. Thank You
This question is from textbook Beginning and Intermediate Algebra

Found 2 solutions by Earlsdon, MathLover1:
Answer by Earlsdon(6294)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This looks like the formula for the area of a trapezoid, so the and are the two bases of the trapezoid, so you can't really add them to get . Otherwise, you have the right idea.
First, multiply both sides by 2.
Now divide both sides by to get:

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Solve for h
if you multiply both sides by 2,

we will have:



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