SOLUTION: The base of a parallelogram and a triangle are the same length, and both figures have the same area. What is true about height of the triangle?

Question 859379: The base of a parallelogram and a triangle are the same length, and both figures have the same area. What is true about height of the triangle?

Answer by Awesom3guy(31) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let's call the height of the parallelogram p and the one of the triangle t.

Both of their bases are the same length. Let's call that B.

The area of a parallelogram is base*height, and of the triangle is HALF of its own (base*height).

The two areas are the same, and so are the bases, and what is different are the heights. So you set up:

As B can be cancelled (same value on numerators on both sides, you have this:

So we can say that - height of the parallelogram is half of the one of triangle, or, if we multiply the equation with 2

Height of the triangle is double the height of the parallelogram.
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