Question

Find the area of a right triangle with a base length of 3 units, and a hypotenuse of 5.

Answer 1

OKay so the first step is to find what the other leg is (a).
\[a^2+3^2=5^2\]
\[a^2+9=25\]
a=16.

Answer 2

so what is the area of the triangle?

Answer 3

I am trying to find the h then * by 2