Question 590063: How do I set this up to figure out the answer? And what does respectively mean?
Base length and height of a triangle is 4 cm and 5 cm respectively; height of the prism = 7 cm
Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! "Respectively" means something like "corresponding" so you have to match the clauses in the order they are mentioned, i.e. when it says "base length and height of a triangle are 4 cm and 5 cm respectively" it means that the base length is 4 cm and the height is 5 cm.
Also, you didn't really pose a question. Do you want the volume? Surface area? Presuming volume, the volume would be the area of the triangle, times the height, or (1/2)(20)*(7) = 70 cm^3.
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