SOLUTION: find the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 11 cm and a leg of 4 cm. round to the nearest hundredth of a square centimeter

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Question 962954: find the area of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 11 cm and a leg of 4 cm. round to the nearest hundredth of a square centimeter
Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
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Area of the triangle: (b*h)/2 (base times height divided by 2)
We need to find the height, which is the missing leg. Using Pythagoras:
sqrt%2811%5E2-+4%5E2%29= height
sqrt%28121-16%29 = 10.25
Now let's go back to the formula for the area:
(4*10.25)/2 = 20.5cm^2 is the area of your triangle.