An equilateral triangle has a height of #sqrt(6)# units. What is the area of the triangle?
1 Answer
Jan 1, 2018
Area:
Explanation:
A common form for the equilateral triangle looks like:
If this common form is scaled up so that the height is
then since
the scaled up base will have a length of
(and the height is the given value of
The area of this (scaled up) triangle will be: