Area
What is the area of shaded portion of figure, given that the vertex of the unshaded triangle is the mid point of the height of the larger triangle?
Note: The length marked 6cm is the altitude from the large triangle's vertex to the side labeled 10cm.
The answer is 15.
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area of shaded = area of the big triangle - area of the small triangle =(0.5)(10)(6) - (0.5)(10)(3) = 15