Question

Maya is finding the area of the shaded triangle below. A triangle has a base of 73 meters and a height of 10 meters. If she considers 10 m to be the height of the triangle, what should she use as the triangle's base? 22 m 25 m 52 m 73 m

Answer 1

The triangle is missing, so i have attached it.

Answer:

Correct answer is option D - 73m

Step-by-step explanation:

From the attached image of the triangle, we can see that the base has 22m and 73m.

However, the question says we want to find the area of the shaded triangle. Thus, we'll make use of the entire base.

To this effect, the base will be 73m as shown