SOLUTION: Help me find the area of a right triangle with side lengths 3,4,5:

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Question 740626: Help me find the area of a right triangle with side lengths 3,4,5:
Answer by rothauserc(4718)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We are asked to find the area of a right triangle with side lengths 3,4,5.
Note that the side 5 is the hypotenuse and
area of a triangle is 1/2 * base * height
in our case
1/2 * 4 * 3 = 6 is the area

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