SOLUTION: a parallelogram has an area of 52 square centimeters. Find the height h of the parallelogram if the base is 5 more than twice the height.
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Question 354459: a parallelogram has an area of 52 square centimeters. Find the height h of the parallelogram if the base is 5 more than twice the height.
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If h is height, then from the given, base .
Area is then .
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,
which gives , or . The first solution is unacceptable, so height cm.
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