SOLUTION: Riley needs to find the area of a right triangle. He knows that one side is 3 cm and the other side is 5 cm, but he does not know the length of the hypotenuse. What is the area of
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Question 1127586: Riley needs to find the area of a right triangle. He knows that one side is 3 cm and the other side is 5 cm, but he does not know the length of the hypotenuse. What is the area of the triangle?
Why is the answer 17? Answer by greenestamps(13367) (Show Source):
The problem says he doesn't know the length of the hypotenuse; that means the 3cm and 5cm are the lengths of the legs. The area of the triangle is then one-half the product of the lengths of the two legs.
