What is the area of a triangle with sides 10, 10 and 16?
1 Answer
Jun 1, 2015
The height of a triangle with sides 10, 10, and 16, if we use 16 as the base is 6 (Pythagorean Theorem and diagram below).
Therefore the area of the triangle is
Alternately you could use Heron's formula
In this case
and
the area