What is the Formula for the Area of a Triangle?

What is the Formula for the Area of a Triangle?

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Did you know that the formula for the area of a triangle can be found by using the formula for the area of a parallelogram? In this tutorial, you'll see how it's done! Take a look!

Keywords:

  • area
  • triangle
  • base
  • height
  • formula
  • half of parallelogram

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      • How Do You Find the Area of a Triangle?How Do You Find the Area of a Triangle?

      How Do You Find the Area of a Triangle?

      Finding the area of a triangle? Know the length of the base and the height? Then just take those values and plug them into the formula for the area of a triangle and solve! This tutorial shows you how.