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The area of a triangle is 18. The base is 6 inches. What is the height? Do not include units in your answer.Provide your answer below:Content attribution

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The formula to calculate the area of a triangle

[tex]A=\frac{1}{2}(b\times h)[/tex]

where b is the base and h is the height

in this case

A=18

b=6

h=?

we substitute the values

[tex]18=\frac{1}{2}(6)(h)[/tex]

we isolate the h

[tex]h=\frac{18\cdot2}{6}=\frac{36}{6}=6[/tex]

The height is 6