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What is a half of a square?
rectangle
Why is the area of the triangle half the base times the height?
Because a triangle is half of a rectangle. The area of a rectangle is length times width, the area of a triangle is half that.
What is half a square?
Half a square is called a rectangle or a triangle.
What do you call half a rectangle?
Square
Can you explain why the area of a triangle is 1 half base height while the area rectangle or a parallelogram is expressed as base height?
If you draw a diagonal in a rectangle you get two equal triangles, each half the area of the rectangle. Area of rectangle is base x height, so half of that is ½ x base x height. QED
What is half a square called?
Half a square is called a rectangle or a triangle.
What is a half of a square?
rectangle
The width of a rectangle is one half its length The perimeter of the rectangle is 54cm What are the width and length of the rectangle?
The length of the rectangle is 18cm. The width of the rectangle is 9cm.
Why is the area of the triangle half the base times the height?
Because a triangle is half of a rectangle. The area of a rectangle is length times width, the area of a triangle is half that.
What is half a square?
Half a square is called a rectangle or a triangle.
How is the area of a triangle related to the area of a rectangle?
It's half the area of a rectangle
What do you call half a rectangle?
Square
For each triangle draw the other half of a rectangle. What does this mean?
The area of qa triangle is always half of the area of a rectangle with the same dimensions
Is every triangle half of a rectangle?
No. Although the area of every triangle is equal to half the area with the same base and height, only right angled triangles are half a rectangle.
Does a rectangle have half-turn symmetry?
Yes.
What happens to the area of a rectangle if you half the width?
It becomes half of what the original area is.
Can you explain why the area of a triangle is 1 half base height while the area rectangle or a parallelogram is expressed as base height?
If you draw a diagonal in a rectangle you get two equal triangles, each half the area of the rectangle. Area of rectangle is base x height, so half of that is ½ x base x height. QED
