What is the missing length?Area of shaded region = 184 mm^2.p = ___ milimeters.

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Arkaha · Answer 1 · 2023-09-26T13:09:24+0000

The formula to calculate the area of a triangle is

$A=(p\cdot b)/(2)$

in our case we have p is the height of the triangle, and b is the base of the triangle

A=184 mm^2

b=16mm

we substitute the data given

$184=(p\cdot16)/(2)$

then we isolate the p

$p=(184\cdot2)/(16)$
p=23