Question

What is the height h for the base that is 5/4 units long?

Answer 1

h=3/10

Explanation:

The way to get the area of triangle is 1/2 * product of two legs or 1/2*base*height.

We get the two legs, so we can get the area of the triangle is 1/2*1*3/4=3/8

And plug in the equation of the area of the triangle with area and base of it:

Solve the equation:

3/8=1/2*5/4*h

3/8=5/8*h

h=
`((3)/(8) )/((5)/(8) )`

And take off 8 from each side

the height is
`(3)/(5)`