To find the area, calculate half of the product of the base and the height.
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Practice makes perfect
We are asked to find the area of the given triangle. The area is half the product of its base and its height. The height is the altitude perpendicular to whichever side is being used as the base.
In the given triangle we can see that the base is 16 cm and that the height is 12 cm. We can substitute these two values into the formula for the area of a triangle and simplify.
