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  2. Area of a triangle - Wikipedia

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    The best known and simplest formula is = /, where b is the length of the base of the triangle, and h is the height or altitude of the triangle. The term "base" denotes any side, and "height" denotes the length of a perpendicular from the vertex opposite the base onto the line containing the base.

  3. Equilateral triangle - Wikipedia

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    In general, the area of a triangle is half the product of its base and height. The formula of the area of an equilateral triangle can be obtained by substituting the altitude formula. [7] Another way to prove the area of an equilateral triangle is by using the trigonometric function. The area of a triangle is formulated as the half product of ...

  4. Altitude (triangle) - Wikipedia

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    The process of drawing the altitude from a vertex to the foot is known as dropping the altitude at that vertex. It is a special case of orthogonal projection. Altitudes can be used in the computation of the area of a triangle: one-half of the product of an altitude's length and its base's length (symbol b) equals the triangle's area: A = h b /2 ...

  5. Viviani's theorem - Wikipedia

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    For any interior point P, the sum of the lengths of the perpendiculars s + t + u equals the height of the equilateral triangle.. Viviani's theorem, named after Vincenzo Viviani, states that the sum of the shortest distances from any interior point to the sides of an equilateral triangle equals the length of the triangle's altitude. [1]

  6. Triangle - Wikipedia

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    An altitude of a triangle is a straight line through a vertex and perpendicular to the opposite side. This opposite side is called the base of the altitude, and the point where the altitude intersects the base (or its extension) is called the foot of the altitude. [23] The length of the altitude is the distance between the base and the vertex.

  7. Apothem - Wikipedia

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    Apothem of a hexagon Graphs of side, s; apothem, a; and area, A of regular polygons of n sides and circumradius 1, with the base, b of a rectangle with the same area. The green line shows the case n = 6. The apothem (sometimes abbreviated as apo [1]) of a regular polygon is a line segment from the center to the midpoint of one of its sides.

  8. Tetrahedron - Wikipedia

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    Its surface area is four times the area of an equilateral triangle: = =. [7] Obtaining the volume is one-third of the base times the height, the general formula for a pyramid, [7] or by dissecting a cube into a tetrahedron and four triangular pyramids. [8].

  9. Heron's formula - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the triangle's side lengths and area are integers, making it a Heronian triangle. However, Heron's formula works equally well when the side lengths are real numbers. As long as they obey the strict triangle inequality, they define a triangle in the Euclidean plane whose area is a positive real number.