Question 237317
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The area of a triangle is given by:


*[tex \LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ A\ =\ \frac{bh}{2}]


where *[tex \Large b] is the base and *[tex \Large h] is the height.  The typical way to label a right triangle is to label the acute angles *[tex \Large A] and *[tex \Large B], the right angle *[tex \Large C], the leg opposite angle *[tex \Large A] is *[tex \Large a], the leg opposite angle *[tex \Large B] is *[tex \Large b], and the hypotenuse is *[tex \Large c].


If what you are calling side *[tex \Large A] and side *[tex \Large B] are the legs of the triangle, then you can call one of them the base and the other the height (and it doesn't matter which is which).  On the other hand, if one of them is actually the hypotenuse, then you will have to use Pythagoras to calculate the measure of the unknown leg.



John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0]
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