SOLUTION: Consider a right angle triangle where the length of the shorter leg is one third of the length of its hypotenuse. If the length of the shorter leg is 7 cm, then calculate the area

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Question 792610: Consider a right angle triangle where the length of the shorter leg is one third of the length of its hypotenuse. If the length of the shorter leg is 7 cm, then calculate
the area of the triangle in square cm.
Answer by rfer(16322) About Me  (Show Source):
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21^2-7^2=
441-49=392
sqrt392=19.8
(19.8*7)/2=69.3 sqcm