How to find the area of a right triangle

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ACT Math › How to find the area of a right triangle

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A right triangle has integer sides with a ratio of , measured in . What is the smallest possible area of this triangle?

2

A right triangle has a total perimeter of 12, and the length of its hypotenuse is 5. What is the area of this triangle?

3

Find the area of a right triangle whose height is 4 and base is 5.

4

The length of one leg of an equilateral triangle is 6. What is the area of the triangle?

5

The ratio for the side lengths of a right triangle is 3:4:5. If the perimeter is 48, what is the area of the triangle?

6

Find the area of the following right triangle to the nearest integer Finding_area_of_right_triangle

Note: The triangle is not necessarily to scale

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Right triangle has hypotenuse cm and . Find the area of the triangle, in cm2, by using .

Round angles to four significant figures. Round side lengths to the nearest integer.

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Right triangle

In the above triangle, if and what is the area of the triangle?

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