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find the area of the triangle below be sure to include the correct unit in your answer. 8ft , 15ft , 17ft it's a right triangle

Sagot :

This is a right triangle so the hight if it will be 15 ft and the base will be 8ft, then we can use the formula of the areas that is:

[tex]\frac{\text{base}\cdot\text{hight}}{2}=A[/tex]

so we replace the values like:

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{15\cdot8}{2}=A \\ 60=A \end{gathered}[/tex]

So the area of the triangle is 60ft