% Practice Exercise 1.1
% Calculate the Area of a user defined Right Triangle 
% Michael Haggerty CISC105 sec 99
% 09/19/2007
clear
clc
base = input('Please enter a value for the base of the triange: ');
height = input('Please enter a value for the height of the triange: ');
area = (1/2) * (base * height);
disp(['The area is ', num2str(area)]);