SOLUTION: Sharon has purchased a rectangular piece of fabric measuring 7 metres in length and 5 metres in width. What is the area of the largest triangle she can cut out from it using at lea

Question 1031878: Sharon has purchased a rectangular piece of fabric measuring 7 metres in length and 5 metres in width. What is the area of the largest triangle she can cut out from it using at least one full side of the fabric?
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since area of a triangle is given by

we can actually use either side as the base and the other dimension becomes the height...thus
A = (1/2)(5)(7) = 17.5 square meters
Any number of triangle can be cut with exactly the same area...
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