SOLUTION: What is the height of a trapezoid whose bases have lengths of 9 centimeters and 12 centimeters and whose area is 52.5 square centimeters? Show your work to justify your answer.

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Question 589962: What is the height of a trapezoid whose bases have lengths of 9 centimeters and 12 centimeters and whose area is 52.5 square centimeters? Show your work to justify your answer.
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Divide the area by the average of the measures of the bases.

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