Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 9:02am.
draw the figure. Draw the diagonol. Notice that 5 is the overlap on each end of the base from the upper base downward. Now look at the right triangle 12-11-h (the 11 is 16-5).
12^2=11^2+h^2 solve for h.
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