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Given the area of a triangle is 40 cm2, if its altitude is 8 cm, its base is 15 cm.

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The answer is false
because the area of a triangle is 1/2 b*h
so in this case, it would be 1/2 15 * 8
and 15 * 8 = 120 and 120 divided by 2 = 60 not 40
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