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. The area of a right triangle is 30 ft2. The base of the triangle is 12 ft. What is the length of the hypotenuse? Show

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Answer:

The height is 5ft

Explanation:

We know the area is 30ft^2 and the base is 12 ft.

Plug that information in the formula for the area of a triangle,

Formula for area of a triangle:

A = (1/2)bh (area is one half of the product of the base and height)

The question gives us A = 30, and b = 12. We can plug them in and find h

30 = (1/2)(12)h

Now solve for h

30 = 6h (1/2)(12) means '12 times one half' or 'half of 12' which is 6

5 = h (30 divided by 6 is equal to 5)

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