Question

Which statement best describes the area of the triangle shown below?




It is twice the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.
It is one-half the area of a square of side length 4 units.
It is one-half the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.
It is twice the area of a square of side length 4 units.

Answer 1

A good way to do this would be to find the area of the triangle,
it has already given that the base is 4 and the height is 4
we use \(a=\frac{h_bb}{2}\) to fidn the area of a triangle
h=height and b= base
the base is 4 and the height is 4
so plugging in the values into the formula we have \(\frac{4 \times 4}{2}=?\)
so solve that by multiplying 4 times 4 then dividing that by 2