In this lesson, you learned new formulas to find the area of a triangle. How are these formulas different from the commonly known A = ½bh? What would be the use of each formula? Would you use radians in any of the formulas? Give examples.

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1 August, 05:10

In this lesson, you learned new formulas to find the area of a triangle. How are these formulas different from the commonly known A = ½bh? What would be the use of each formula? Would you use radians in any of the formulas? Give examples.

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Triston Davidson · Answer 1

Aside from the conventional formula for triangle, A = ½bh which is only applicable to problems where the base and height are already given and the triangle is a right triangle having a degree of 90. There are some formulas in getting the area of a triangle:

>Given three sides of the triangle, use Heron's Formula

A = sqrt (s (s-a) (s-b) (s-c))

s = (a+b+c) / 2

>Given two sides with an included angle

Area = 1/2 ab sin (tetha)

tethat should be in degrees