Question

Find the area of the following triangle.

Answer 1

Which side is the base of the triangle? Which is the height? Does it matter? Explain.

Answer 2

What's the formula for the area of a right triangle?

Answer 3

A=ab/2

Answer 4

Yes, base*height/2

Answer 5

What are your base and height?

Answer 6

B=7 H=4

Answer 7

Plug those into the formula to get the area.

Answer 8

`Which side is the base of the triangle? Which is the height? Does it matter?` it does not matter because you can rotate or flip the triangle in a number of ways. You'll still get the same area

Answer 9

or if A = B*H/2 and B is 7 and H is 4, what's A?

Answer 10

@jim_thompson thanks for that

Answer 11

@bahrom7893 A=14

Answer 12

Correct :)