Question

Hi can you please help me with this problem?The shape is shown below What is the area of the triangle below (in square units)?

Answer 1

28 square inches

Explanation:

Given:

Base = 7 inches

Height = 8 inches

We can calculate the area with the help of the triangle area formula, which is as follows:

`A=(1)/(2)b\cdot h`

We replacing:

`\begin{gathered} A=(1)/(2)\cdot7\cdot8 \\ A=28 \end{gathered}`

The area is 28 square inches.