Question

What is the area of this triangle?​

Answer 1

The area of the triangle is:

`Area=8\, \,units^2`

Explanation:

Recall that the area of any triangle is defined as the product of the triangle's base times the triangle's height, divided by two:

`Area_(triangle)=(base\,*\,height)/(2)`

therefore, in our case, notice that the length of the triangle's base is 4 units (from x = 0 to x = 4), and the triangle's height is also 4 units (from y = -5 to y = -1)

Then the triangle's area becomes:

`Area=(4base\,*\,4)/(2) =8\, \,units^2`