Question

How do you find the height of an equilateral triangle when the surface area is 51.673 mm^2?

Answer 1

good question lol, i never knew an equilateral triangle had a surface area?

Answer 2

yeeees

Answer 3

the base of the triangle is 2.7 and the length is 5.6

Answer 4

is this given? zack

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

alright so we're given A= 51.673, B = 2.7 and length of what equals 5.6

Answer 7

its an equilateral triangular prism

Answer 8

and it's asing for the height of the equilateral triangle

Answer 9

first you have to understand how the surface area of a equilateral triangle prism works

you can do this by using the video below

Answer 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdaEaWZ1Ek8

Answer 11

actually it is not even necessary if they give you the base of the triangle