Eva is working out the area of a triangle . The base is 7.8 and the length of one side is 6.3 cm. I multiply and then divide by two. What mistake has eva made?

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Answer:

  Eva used a side dimension instead of the height.

Step-by-step explanation:

The base needs to be multiplied by the height, then the result needs to be divided by 2. Eva's mistake is using a side dimension instead of the height. Her approach only works for a right triangle.

Eva multiplied the base by the side height, not the actual height.

Step-by-step explanation:

The area of a triangle is b×h×½, or b×h÷2. Eva multiplied the length times one side, as it says in the problem. The actual height of the triangle we don't know, but we know that Eva multiplied the base, 7.8 cm, by the wrong height.

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