Thursday, July 17, 2014

Find the length of the side of equilateral triangle of area 10.2 m^2?

We'll recall the following formula that gives the area of
a triangle:


A = side*side*sine of the angle
included/2


Since the lengths of the sides of an equilateral
triangle are equal, let the length of the side be x.


A =
`x^(2)` * sin 60/2


10.2 = `x^(2)` *`sqrt(3)`
/4


40.8 = `sqrt(3)` `x^(2)`


x
= `sqrt(40.8/sqrt(3))` m


x = 4.853
m


Therefore, the requested length of the side
of equilateral triangle is x = 4.853 m.

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