Question

A deck is in the shape of a right triangle. The area of the deck is 44 m². The length of one side of the deck next to the right angle is 8 m.
What is the length of the other side next to the right angle of the deck?



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Answer 1

11m
The area of a triangle is bh/2. If we know the height (8m), we can plug it into a=bh/2 for a=8h/2 or a=4h or a/4=h
Since we know the area (44m^2), we can put that in for 44/4=h or h=11 metres.