How do you work out the area of an equilateral triangle with sides of length 6cm? How do you work out the area of an equilateral triangle with sides of length 6cm?
1 Answer
Dec 1, 2015
Explanation:
We can see that if we split an equilateral triangle in half, we are left with two congruent equilateral triangles. Thus, one of the legs of the triangle is
If we want to determine the area of the entire triangle, we know that
Thus, since