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What is the area of the triangle in the diagram?

What is the area of the triangle in the diagram?-example-1

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Answer:

A is the correct answer

Explanation:

We need to figure out the base and the height. We can do that using pythagorean's theorem.

The others either misused the pythagorean theorem or got the 1/2*base*height formula wrong, so A is the answer.

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