Question

A triangle has a base that measures 8 centimeters and a height that measures 10 centimeters. What is the area of the triangle?

Answer 1

The area of a triangle is given by the following formula:

$A=\frac{b\times h}{2}$

Where b is the length of the base and h is the length of the height of the triangle, in this case, b equals 8 and h equals 10, by replacing these values into the above formula, we get:

$A=\frac{8\times10}{2}=\frac{80}{2}=40$

Then, the area of the triangle equals 40 square centimeters.