SOLUTION: find the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 15cm and a leg of 12cm

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Question 880922: find the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 15cm and a leg of 12cm
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the other leg using the Pythagorean theorem.





Then the area of a triangle is,




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