How Do You Find the Height of a Trapezoid if You Know the Area and Bases?

How Do You Find the Height of a Trapezoid if You Know the Area and Bases?

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Want to find the height of a trapezoid? Already know the area and the length of both the bases? Then you can use the formula for the area of a trapezoid to find that missing measurement! Check out this tutorial to see how!

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