Triangle Area #2

Geometry Level 2

Find the area of the triangle above. Round to 3 decimals.

**Details and Guidelines:

Don't try to use the Basic triangle formula**


The answer is 93.675.

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2 solutions

We can use the Heron's formula to solve this:

So in this case, we have

A = 25 ( 25 12 ) ( 25 16 ) ( 25 22 ) A=\sqrt{25(25-12)(25-16)(25-22)}

Which simplifies to

A = 25 ( 13 ) ( 9 ) ( 3 ) A=\sqrt{25(13)(9)(3)}

Which equals to

A = 8875 A=\sqrt{8875}

= 93.675 =93.675 To (3dp)

By cosine rule, we have

2 2 2 = 1 2 2 + 1 6 2 2 ( 12 ) ( 16 ) ( cos A ) 22^2=12^2+16^2-2(12)(16)(\cos A)

A 102.636 A \approx 102.636

So the area is 1 2 ( 12 ) ( 16 ) ( sin 102.636 ) 93.675 m 2 \dfrac{1}{2}(12)(16)(\sin 102.636) \approx \boxed{93.675~m^2}

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