Gary is playing the role of the Greek god Zeus in a school play. He carries a lightning bolt cut from plywood. Its dimensions are shown in the figure. What is the area of the wooden cutout of the lightning bolt?
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30  square inches.

Given:

The wooden cutout of the lightning bolt consists of 2 right angled triangles with the legs being 10 inches and 3 inches.

The area of this lightning bolt will be equal to the sum of the areas of the two right angled triangles.

The area of a triangle of base 'b' and height 'h' is given as:

Here Plug in solve for area of one of the triangles.

Therefore, area of the right angled triangle is:

Now, the two right angled triangles are congruent. So, total area is twice the area of one of the triangle.

Therefore, total area of the lightning bolt is:

stops on an even number.