If the area was 16cm^2 before, then each side was 4 cm long since each side of a square is equal, and the area for a square is the length of the sides squared. The square root of 16 is 4, so that is why the sides were 4 cm. When you make each side 1 cm shorter, they're now all 3 cm. 3^2 is 9, so the new area is 9 square centimeters.
Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

3-5x = -5
X =8/5
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The formula is there for area of a trapezoid.
1/2(4)(9 + 13)
2(22)
44
Answer: 34.93 units
Step-by-step explanation:
The volume of a rectangular prism can be calculated with this formula:

Where "V" is the volume, "B" is the base area and "h" is the height.
Since we need to find the height, we must solve for "h":

We know that the volume of that wooden chest (which is in the shape of a rectangular prism) is 524 cubic units and the base area is 15 square units. Then:

Subsitituting these values into
, we get that the height of the chest is:
