Question

Which statement best describes the area of the triangle shown below?

A coordinate grid is shown with a triangle. The base is 4 units, and the height is 4 units (Image is also down below).

A. It is one-half the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.

B. It is twice the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.

C. It is one-half the area of a square of side length 4 units.

D. It is twice the area of a square of side length 4 units.

Answer 1

The answer is C. This is because the area of a triangle is height • (base divided by 2), which means the triangle has an area of 8 and the square in answer 3 has an area of 16. 8 is half of 16.

Answer 2

The statement that best describes the area of the triangle shown below is; Choice C; It is one-half the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.

Discussion;

From the grid representation in the question.

The area of the triangle are can be evaluated as;

• Area(triangle) = 1/2 × 4 × 2

By observation, we can conclude that the area of the triangle is one-half the area of a rectangle of length 4 units and width 2 units.

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