SOLUTION: how do you find the area of a right triangle with the given leg 8 m and hypotenuse 16 m? round decimal answers to the nearest tenth.

Question 827969: how do you find the area of a right triangle with the given leg 8 m and hypotenuse 16 m? round decimal answers to the nearest tenth.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The two legs of a right triangle are the base and height, either order.
If x and y are each leg, h is hypotenuse, then .
Your example would become

48*4=24*2*4=2*12*2*4=2*2*2*3*2*4
192=2^4**3*2^2
2^3*sqrt(3)=sqrt(192)

Area is
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