What is the height of the triangle if the area is one hundred eight square meters?

A triangle with a base labeled eighteen meters and a second side labeled twenty meters. A dotted line extends from the vertex downward and perpendicular to the base. This dotted line is not labeled.

eleven meters

twelve meters

sixty-nine meters

seventy meters

Question

What is the height of the triangle if the area is one hundred eight square meters?

A triangle with a base labeled eighteen meters and a second side labeled twenty meters. A dotted line extends from the vertex downward and perpendicular to the base. This dotted line is not labeled.

eleven meters

twelve meters

sixty-nine meters

seventy meters

anonymous · Answer

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tkhunny · Answer

$Triangle\;Area = (1/2)Base*Height$

We know the area:

$108\;m^{2} = (1/2)Base*Height$

We know the base:

$108\;m^{2} = (1/2)(18\;m)*Height$

Looks like you should be able to find the height from that.