Determining Unknown Dimensions of Triangles

Determining Unknown Dimensions of Triangles
Introduction

Triangles appear throughout everyday life—in architecture, art, engineering, and design. Knowing how to find a missing measurement of a triangle when the are...

You’re designing a small flag for a school project, and the main shape is a triangle.

You already know that the area is 48 square inches and the base is 8 inches. Now you need the height to cut the fabric correctly.

There’s a simple formula to find the area of any triangle, which is ½ times base times height.

Since you know th...