Question

She found that the area of the garden will be 127 1/2 square feet by using the equation Area=bh. I'd the height, h, of the parallelogram-shaped garden is 8 1/2 feet, what is the base, b, in feet?

Answer 1

To solve this problem yo must apply the proccedure shown below:

1. You must use the formula applied to calculate the area of the garden.

$A=bh$

2. You know the value of the area ($127^{\frac{1}{2}}ft^{2}=127.5ft^{2}$ and the value of the heigth ($8^{\frac{1}{2}}ft=8.5ft$ , therefore, you only need to solve for the base:

$b=\frac{A}{h}\\b=\frac{127.5ft}{8.5ft}\\b=15ft$

The answer is: 15 feet.