Triangle Area Calculation: Finding Area with Base 5 and Height 6

Question

What is the area of the given triangle?

00:00 Determine the area of the triangle

00:03 In order to calculate the triangle's area we will utilize the following formula

00:06 (Base x height) divided by 2

00:11 Insert the known data into the formula as follows (base(5) x height(6)) divided by 2

00:16 Proceed to calculate

00:22 Here is the solution

This question is a bit confusing. We need start by identifying which parts of the data are relevant to us.

Remember the formula for the area of a triangle:

A1- How to find the area of a triangle The height is a straight line that comes out of an angle and forms a right angle with the opposite side.

In the drawing we have a height of 6.

It goes down to the opposite side whose length is 5.

And therefore, these are the data points that we will use.

We replace in the formula:

$\frac{6\times5}{2}=\frac{30}{2}=15$