Moses found the area of the rectangle below by creating triangles as shown. What is the area of one of the triangles? The rectangle is 16 units and 24 units

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To find the area of one of the triangles that Moses created, we first need to find the total area of the rectangle.

The area of a rectangle is calculated by multiplying its length by its width. In this case, the length is 24 units and the width is 16 units.

Area of rectangle = length x width
Area of rectangle = 24 x 16
Area of rectangle = 384 square units

Moses created 8 triangles to cover the entire rectangle. Since all the triangles are congruent, we can divide the total area of the rectangle by 8 to find the area of one triangle.

Area of one triangle = Total area of rectangle / Number of triangles
Area of one triangle = 384 / 8
Area of one triangle = 48 square units

Therefore, the area of one of the triangles that Moses created is 48 square units.