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Find the area of the triangle below.

Carry your intermediate computations to at least four decimal places. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

Find the area of the triangle below. Carry your intermediate computations to at least-example-1
User Bmurauer
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Answer:

15.43 km^2

Explanation:

If base of triangle is 8 km, then height will be the line from vertex which is perpendicular with base

sin(40) = height/6

0.64278761 = height/6

height = 0.64278761 x 6 = 3.85672566

then area = 1/2 (3.85672566 x 8) = 15.42690264 or 15.43

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