The area of a parallelogram is 486 square cm. The sum of its bases is 54 cm. Each slanted side measures 14 cm. What is the height?

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Answer 1 · 2015-12-25T23:07:04

The height is #18cm#

The area of the parallelogram is: #A=b*h#

If the sum of bases is #54# then each base is #54-:2=27#
(The parallelogram has 2 pairs of equal and parallel sides)

So now we can calculate that: #h=A-:b=486-:27=18#