SOLUTION: The lengths of the right isosceles triangle are 8 cm, 11 cm, and 8 cm. Can you find the area of the triangle? If you can't explain why not. If you can, give the area and explain wh

Question 956905: The lengths of the right isosceles triangle are 8 cm, 11 cm, and 8 cm. Can you find the area of the triangle? If you can't explain why not. If you can, give the area and explain why you can.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is not a right isosceles triangle because it doesn't follow the Pythagorean theorem.

However you can find the area.
Find the height of the triangle using 1/2 the base of 11 and the length 8 to form a right triangle.

So then the area is,

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