What is the area of the following triangle in square meters? do not round your answer.

The area of a triangle is half of it's base times its height. The base of this triangle is 54 cm, and the height is 1.2 m.
 
It's important to notice that the base is 54 CENTIMENTERS, and we want our final answer in square meters, so let's convert it. 100 centimeters = 1 meter, so 54 centimeters = 0.54 meters.

Let's use that formula bh/2 (base*height/2) to find the area:

The answer is 109 times per second