Question

What is the height of the triangle if the area is sixty square meters?

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

9 meters

ten meters

nineteen meters

twenty meters

Answer 1

so you're trying to fidn this dotted line which wouldbe the height of the triangle

Answer 2

remember
\[Area=\frac{ base \times height }{ 2 }\]

Answer 3

OK

Answer 4

since you know area=60
and base is 12

just plug these values and solve for height

\[60= \frac{ 12 \times height }{ 2 }\]

Answer 5

can you solve for height?