Question

Find the area of the triangle below.9 cm6 cm2 cm

Answer 1

We recall that the area of a triangle is defined by the product of the triangle's base times its height divided by 2.

So we notice that in our image, we know the height (6 cm), and we also know the base of the triangle (2 cm)

Therefore the triangles are is easily estimated via the formula:

`\text{Area}=(base\cdot height)/(2)=(2\cdot6)/(2)=6\, \, cm^2`

Then the area is 6 square cm.