Find the height of the parallelogram whose base is four times that of the height and whose area is 576 $cm^{2}$
The area of a parallelogram is 576 $cm^{2}$
Let h be the height of the parallelogram.
The length of the base is four times the height.
The base of the parallelogram = 4 x h
= (4 x h) x h = 4 x $h^{2}$
The area of the parallelogram = base x height
4 x $h^{2}$ = 576
[From step 1.]
$h^{2}$ = 144
[Divide each side by 4.]
h = 12 cm
[Take the square roots on both the sides.]
The height of the parallelogram is 12 cm