Question

find the area of a right triangle with hypotenuse of length 10 and the height perpendicular to the hypotenuse of length 6

Answer 1

Answer:

Area is 24

Step-by-step explanation:

The three sides of the triangle are 6, 8, and 10. You could use A² + B² = C² and determine that A² + 36 = 100 to find the missing side is 8.

Then, the area of the square is 6 × 8 = 48. And each triangle that makes up the square is 48 ÷ 2 = 24.