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How To Calculate Area Of a Triangle Using The Length Of The 3 Sides.

Rosemary Njeri

Before we discuss how to calculate the area of a triangle, lets define triangles. Triangles have three sides and usually represent half a rectangle or square. There several different types of triangles but all of them have three sides, and it’s possible to calculate their area.

The way you calculate the area of a triangle mainly depends on the kind of triangle and how much information you have about it. In instances where your not given the height and the base you can use this formula.

This formula is only applicable where you are given the measure of the three sides. We can calculate the semi-perimeter p by adding all the sides and dividing by 2.

Example:

If a=4cm b=cm and c=9cm Calculate the area of that triangle using the length of the 3 sides.

how to calculate area of a triangle using the length of three sides 2

You can start off by calculating the semi perimeter,p;

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Now that we have P, all we need to do is feed the values of a,b,c and p into the formula and we will get the area.

how to calculate area of a triangle using the length of three sides

So despite not knowing the base or vertical height of the triangle, we were able to find the area using this formula to be 9.56 cm squared.

This formula was introduced in 1st century B.C. by a great mathematician called Heron.

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