Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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2. Areas of Triangles
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Exercise 16 Page 295

To find the area, calculate half of the product of the base and the height.

132 m^2

Practice makes perfect
Let's find the area of the given triangle. The area of a triangle is half the product of its base and its height. In the given triangle, we can see that the base is 33 meters and that the height is 8 meters. We can substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a triangle and simplify. Let's do it!
A=1/2bh
A=1/2( 33)( 8)
Evaluate right-hand side
A=1/2(264)
A=264/2
A=132
The area of the triangle is 132 square meters.