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Error Analysis Monique's farm has a field in the shape of a right triangle as shown. She needs to find the area of the field to decide how much fertilizer to buy. To find the area of the field, she composes the triangle and a matching triangle into a rectangle. Monique calculates that she needs enough fertilizer to cover 200 comma 000 yd squared. Find the correct area of the field. What error did Monique make?
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400 yd
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The area of the field is
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The area is 100,000 yd^2.
Monique's error: she computed the area of the rectangle made by two congruent right triangles (400 × 500 = 200,000) but forgot that one triangle is half that rectangle. Area = (1/2)(400)(500) = 100,000 yd^2.
Monique's error: she computed the area of the rectangle made by two congruent right triangles (400 × 500 = 200,000) but forgot that one triangle is half that rectangle. Area = (1/2)(400)(500) = 100,000 yd^2.
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