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  • 26-04-2017
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Prove that the area of an isosceles right triangle is one-fourth the square of the length of the hypotenuse.

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FlanScar
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  • 07-05-2017
if s is the isosceles side length, s^2/2 is the area(half base times height).
the hypotenuse is s.sqrt(2) by Pythagoras' theorem. so square it and divide by 4 to get the same
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