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What is the area of the given triangle?

24 square units
12 square units
48 square units
17.2 square units

What is the area of the given triangle? 24 square units 12 square units 48 square-example-1
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Answer: 12 square units

Step-by-step explanation: first you must count hom many units there are between points A and B, which is 4, and then count the points between B and C, which is 6.

Now that we have the units we do 6 x 4 = 24, however, you may be asking why we do not do 24 then, well if you were to be doing 6 x 4, you would be getting the area of a rectangle, and half of a rectangle is a triangle, so we have to do 24/2 which equals 12.

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