Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Cumulative Practice

Exercise 9 Page 341

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

20yd^2

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 5 yards and that the height is 8 yards. 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( 5)( 8)
Evaluate right-hand side
A=1/2(40)
A=40/2
A=20
The area of the triangle is 20 square yards.