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Find the area of a right triangle with a base length of 5 units and a height of 8 units.

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8 x 5/2 = 40/2 = 20 units

We find the area of a four sided shape by multiplying the height and the base of the shape, since a right triangle is half a four sided shape, we just divide that by 2.
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