What is the area of a triangle with sides of length 2, 3, and 2?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-21T15:28:49

The area of this triangle is #A~~1.98#

You can use the Heron's formula to calculate the area of a triangle with given side lengths:

#p=(a+b+c)/2=3.5# is half of a perimeter.

Now we can write that the area is:

#A=sqrt(p(p-a)(p-b)(p-c))#

So:

#A=sqrt(3.5*1.5*0.5*1.5)#

#A~~1.98#