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Use Heron’s Area Formula to find the area of the triangle.

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Use Heron’s Area Formula to find the area of the triangle.

a = 8,   b = 12,   c = 17
asked Jan 23, 2015 in TRIGONOMETRY by anonymous

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Step 1:

The lengths of the sides of the triangle are image, image and image.

Herons formula for area of a triangle is image

Where image

Substitute corresponding values in image

image

Step 2:

substitute above values in image

Area of the triangle image

image

image

Solution:

Area of the triangle is image.

answered Jan 23, 2015 by cameron Mentor

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