What is the area of the triangle to the nearest tenth?
Find h (height) as 2.6 sin 70 = 2.44 yd
then area = 1/2 base * height = 1/2 * 5.6 * 2.44 yd2
One other way without finding the height
A = (1/2) (2.6) (5.6) sin (70) ≈ 6.84096 yd^2