Comparing Areas of Triangle and Rectangle

A triangle has sides of lengths 6 cm, 8 cm, and 10 cm. Determine the area of the triangle. Compare this area to the area of a rectangle with a length of 8 cm and a width of 6 cm.

Use the formula for the area of a triangle given by:

$$ ext{Area} =\frac{1}{2} imes ext{base} imes ext{height}$$

The given triangle is a right triangle. Thus, you can use the two shorter sides as the base and the height.