Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 6 - Section 6.7 - Formulas - Exercises - Page 256: 23

Answer

$$ b=\frac{2A}{h } .$$

Work Step by Step

To solve the given equation for $b$, we multiply both sides by $2$ and then divide both sides by $h$ as follows: $$ A=\frac{1}{2}bh\Longrightarrow 2 A=h b\Longrightarrow \frac{2A}{h}=\frac{hb}{h }\\ \Longrightarrow b=\frac{2A}{h } .$$
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