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What Is the Area of the Triangle?

What Is the Area of the Triangle?-example-1
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Answer:

A=1/2bh

=1/2×4×8

=1/2×32

=16.

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Explanation:

To find the area of a right triangle, you multiply the two legs of the triangle and then divide that result by 2. The reason this works is because a right triangle's area is exactly half the area of a rectangle using the same legs.

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