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Michelle, If you have an equilateral triangle with each side of length s units then you can find the height, h, of the triangle using the expression The instruction "Solve for s" is asking you to manipulate this equation to arrive at the form
To do this I would first take the original expression and multiple both sides by 2 to obtain
Now divide both sides by √3 and the expression becomes
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