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.

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.

supie · Answer

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