SOLUTION: Mike needs to find the height of a parallelogram. The base is 3 inches long and the area is 36 square inches. What is the height?

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Question 1015217: Mike needs to find the height of a parallelogram. The base is 3 inches long and the area is 36 square inches. What is the height?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
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Mike needs to find the height of a parallelogram. The base is 3 inches long and the area is 36 square inches. What is the height?
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h = area/base
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h = 36 in^2/3 in
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h = 12 in
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by ikleyn(52786) (Show Source):
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Mike needs to find the height of a parallelogram. The base is 3 inches long and the area is 36 square inches. What is the height?
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Mike needs to know this rule: the area of a parallelogram is the product of the base length by the height drawn to this base.

Hence, the height is the quotient of division the area by the base length:

h = inches.