document.write( "Question 823670: Please Help, I Have Tried to do this but I don't get what order to make the equation in. It says; 'Write an equation using the given information about the parallelogram. Then solve the equation to find x.' The given Information is That the area=195 in. to the power of two, the base is 15 in. wide, and x is the amount of the height. I need to make an equation with the variable x first, and then solve. Please Help! Thank You! \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "YOUR PROBLEM:\r\n" );
document.write( "Write an equation using the given information about the parallelogram. Then solve the \r\n" );
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document.write( "The area is 195 square inches. \r\n" );
document.write( "The base is 15 in. wide\r\n" );
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document.write( "NOTE :: A \"square inch\" is a measurement of area. It is sometimes written as the abbreviation \r\n" );
document.write( ". It is not the same as raising \"to the power of two.\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "A SOLUTION:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let x be the height of the parallelogram (in inches).\r\n" );
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document.write( "The formula for the area of a parallelogram is \"base times height.\" Let's convert that to an \r\n" );
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document.write( "[base of the parallelogram] * [height of the parallelogram] = [area of the parallelogram]\r\n" );
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document.write( "[15 inches] * [ x ] = [195 square inches]\r\n" );
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document.write( "We filled in each of the numbers we were given and we are left with an equation with the variable x. \r\n" );
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document.write( "15x is equivalent to 195. We want to know what x is, so we divide both sides of the equation by 15.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now simplify: 15x divided by 15 is x by itself, and 195 divided by 15 is 13.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Remember that we said that x is the height of the parallelogram in inches. In the context of \r\n" );
document.write( "this problem, x=13 means the height of the parallelogram is 13 inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Hope this helps,\r\n" );
document.write( "Mrs. Figgy\r\n" );
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