The figure shows a parallelogram inside a rectangle outline: A parallelogram is shown within a rectangle. The length of the rect
angle is 3 over 4 foot and the width of the rectangle is 1 over 2 foot. The two equal bases of the triangles outside the parallelogram are labeled 1 over 8 foot. What is the area of the parallelogram? 1 over 32 square foot 5 over 16 square foot 9 over 32 square foot 6 over 16 square foot
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Answer:
14 knots
Step-by-step explanation:
We know the speed (55 knots) is 6 more than 3.5 times the winner of the monohull in the 2007 tournament.
So let's set the variable for the speed of the monohull to <em>m</em>. Now, let's set up an equation:
We can solve this by first subtracting 6 from both sides to get:
Dividing both sides by 3.5 we get:
That means that the top speed of the monohull in the 2007 tournament was 14 knots