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Can you solve question four for me and figure out what the area of the triangle is?

Can you solve question four for me and figure out what the area of the triangle is-example-1

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Step-by-step explanation:

We are given a triangle with two sides indicated and the third side unknown.

Note that for right angled triangles we can solve for unknown sides by using the Pythagoras theorem as shown;


\begin{gathered} c^2=a^2+b^2 \\ Where\text{ the variables are;} \\ c=hypotenuse \\ a,b=other\text{ sides} \end{gathered}

For the first triangle we have the sides a and b as;


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