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A window shaped like a parallelogram has an area of 18 and 1 over 3 square feet.The height of the window is 3 and 1 over 3 feet.How long is the base of the window?

 Mar 17, 2016
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A window shaped like a parallelogram has an area of 18 and 1 over 3 square feet.The height of the window is 3 and 1 over 3 feet.How long is the base of the window?

 

18 + 1/3 =   55 / 3

3 + 1/3   =  10 / 3

 

Aparallelogram   =  B * H  ....... so we have

 

55/3  = B * 10/ 3      multiply both sides by  3 / 10

 

(55/3) (3/10)   = B  =  55/ 10    =  5 + 5/10 ft    =   5 + 1/2  ft

 

 

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 Mar 17, 2016

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