Question

You work as an assistant to a carpenter who designed the tabletop below. He tells you that each shape is a right triangle, and each is the same size. You now need to calculate the area of one triangle so that you can begin building the tabletop. What is the area of each triangle in square inches? 28 1/4" and 20"

Answer 1

282.5 inches squared

Explanation:

A triangle is half the area of a square.

So we will solve the area as if we were finding the area for a square, and then we halve the result.

Length multiply by height to get the area:

28.25 × 20 = 565 inches squared

Now, half the answer to get the area of the triangle:

565/2=282.5 inches squared