Given the following net, what is the area of the triangular base?

10

24

48

8

1 answer

The triangular base is composed of two congruent right triangles with legs of length 8 and 6. Therefore, the area of the triangular base is 0.5 * base * height = 0.5 * 8 * 6 = 24.

So, the correct answer is 24.