SOLUTION: What is the length of the base of a triangle with height 20 cm and area 150 cm2?
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Question 465849: What is the length of the base of a triangle with height 20 cm and area 150 cm2?
Answer by kingme18(98) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For a triangle: Area = .5*base*height
For you: Area = 150 and height = 20
Plugging those into the formula, you get
Multiply .5 and 20:
To get base by itself, divide by 10 on both sides:
The base is 15 cm.
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