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How do you find the area of a right triangle with the hypotenuse being 15 and one side being 12?

Answer 1

Hazel Anglin

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Apply Pythagoras theorem to find the other side hence

#a^+b^2=c^2=>a^2=15^2-12^2=81=>a=9#

Now you know the base and the height of the triangle hence the area of the triangle is

#A=1/2*(base)*(height)=1/2*9*12=54#

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Answer 2

Eli Assouline

To find the area of a right triangle, you can use the formula A = (1/2) * base * height. In this case, the hypotenuse is not needed to find the area. Given that one side of the right triangle is 12, you need to determine the length of the other side, which is the height. To do this, you can use the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. So, using the Pythagorean theorem, you can find the length of the height. Once you have the base and height, you can substitute these values into the area formula to calculate the area of the right triangle.

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