msagro Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 can someone tell me, why do you have to halve the hight a triangle to find the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timo Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Because if you placed an equal triangle next to the one you have you´d get a parallelogramm which has the area base*height. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msagro Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 Thanks Atheist, I'd always questioned my son about that and never got an answer that solved it. I'll pass it on to him so we can settle this once and for all....Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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