To find the area of a triangle, multiply the base by the height, and then divide by 2. The division by 2 comes from the fact that a parallelogram can be divided into 2 triangles. For example, in the diagram to the left, the area of each triangle is equal to one-half the area of the parallelogram.

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anthony bought an 8 foot board.He cut off 3/4 of the board to build a shelf,and gave 1/3 of the rest to his brother for an art p

e-lub [12.9K]

Convert your feet to inches.
So 8 times by 12 = 96 inches
if you have 3/4 of the board used.
3/4= .75
if you were to times 96 by .75 = 72 inches.
So you used 72 inches and you have 24 inches left

now do 1/3= .33
times .33 by 24= 8
8 inches is how long you would give to Anthony's brother.

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3 years ago

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Charles is 45 years old, and makes $40,000 per year. If he were to die, how

AleksandrR [38]

Answer:

Oh, how morbid these interest problems are.

Are you asking how much they would recieve in a year?

If so:

40000/100=400

400*60=$24000 a year

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