How to Easily Find the Area of a Triangle

Finding the area of a triangle is a piece of cake. All you need to know is the formula and how to plug the givens of the problem into it!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Formula for the area of a triangle.

1. In order to solve for the area of a triangle you will need to know the formula for finding the area, which is A=(1/2)bh. 'A' stands for area, 'b' stands for base, and 'h' stands for height.

2. Use the information that the problem already gives you (these are called givens). Let's say the givens are that the base is 10 and the height is 7. Plug them into the formula!: A=(1/2)(10)(7).

3. What you need to do now is multiply 7, 10 and 1/2, or you could simply multiply 10 and 7 then divide it in half OR, you could find half of 10 (which is 5) and then multiply it by 7. Either way, the answer you will get for this problem is 35; The area of this particular triangle is 35 inches, sq. inches, etc. (depending on the problem).

[tachic]

on 3/8/2009 Great math lessons I'm getting today!

[lkrause2]

on 3/6/2009 Thanks for the fun math article! Simple to understand and well-written. 5*