The medians of a triangle are 5 cm, 6cm and 7cm. The area of this triangle can be expressed as where and are positive integers. Find .
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The medians of a triangle satisfy the triangular inequality. Moreover, if Δ M is the area of the triangle having the medians as sides and Δ T is the area of the original triangle, Δ T = 3 4 Δ M holds, so it is sufficient to find Δ M = 6 6 through Heron's formula in order to have Δ T = 8 6 .